Because another type of drama featuring Aidan Turner illustrates this new Renaissance polymath’s work and you can relationships, historian Catherine Fletcher considers what is known about the private, romantic and you may sexual life from Leonardo weil Vinci – from allegations away from sodomy in order to a critical thread which have an enthusiastic apprentice…
Towards nine April 1476, Leonardo weil Vinci try implicated from sodomy when you look at the an anonymous declaration with the Florentine government. Leonardo, following only in short supply of their 24th birthday celebration, try certainly five guys said to have experienced sex that have the newest 17-year-old Jacopo Saltarelli. The new denouncer advertised you to Saltarelli was actually “a celebration to a lot of wretched activities and you can consents in order to delight people people just who exact specific evil delights out of your”. Saltarelli had seem to “served numerous dozen people”, but just four was in fact named: Leonardo da Vinci, then situated at workshop away from Andrea del Verrocchio; a good goldsmith titled Bartholomeo di Pasquino; a great tailor entitled Baccino; and Leonardo Tornabuoni.