Leonardo da Vinci was born April 16th, 1453 near Florence, Italy. Yes, that Leonardo. The Renaissance artist who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper never married or had any romantic relationship with a woman. At the age of 24 while he was working for the Italian painter Verocchio he and three other young men were anonymously accused of sodomy. Leonardo was accusation asserted he'd had sex with a known male prostitute named Jacopo Saltarelli, though the charges were dropped for lack of witnesses. Taking on male assistants would have been a common practice; however, Leonardo employed very attractive young men, including one he nicknamed "little devil" (Salai).
Volumes have been written about one of the most famous painters of history. Read a little more
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