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Leonardo da vinci walter5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1476, Leonardo da Vinci, on the verge of his twenty-fourth birthday, was named as one of four men who had practiced “such wickedness” with the seventeen-year-old apprentice of a local goldsmith. The common nature of the offense did not erase the threat of serious consequences. ![]() But the crime that the government was really trying to control was sodomy, so notoriously prevalent that contemporary German slang for a homosexual was Florenzer. In Renaissance Florence, a number of designated boxes placed throughout the city allowed citizens to make anonymous denunciations of various moral crimes-in 1461, for example, the artist-monk Filippo Lippi was accused of fathering a child with a nun. Illustration by Tamara Shopsin engraving from Hulton Archive / Getty A new biography celebrates the great artist’s more scientific innovations. ![]()
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