Sublime

L’homosexualité n’est rare ni dans la communauté artistique florentine ni dans le cercle de Verrocchio. Ce dernier ne se mariera jamais, à l’instar de Botticelli, également accusé de sodomie. Donatello, Michel-Ange ou encore Benvenuto Cellini (condamné deux fois pour sodomie) sont également gays.

“Obviously someone who hates you,” Devon added. Macaroni wasn’t the most flattering medium, still the picture appeared too ugly to be anything but an intentional insult.

Andrea Toma-celli, who had used Boldrino to help him restore order in the Papal States, decided that he would anticipate Boldrino’s next desertion and win popularity with the local inhabitants by having him murdered at a dinner party in Macerata. Bold-rino’s company is said to have carried the body of their murdered leader with them for two years a

Great barrels of spaghetti and macaroni of every shape and colour jostled festoons of children’s shoes strung up like Breton onions; picture postcards (of course) shared a counter with sugared almonds and cheese; Parma ham glowed pinkly delicious beside disorganised heaps of sunglasses; graceful flasks of Chianti dangled from hooks alternately with

Leonardo’s most serious longtime companion, who joined Leonardo’s household in 1490, was angelic looking but devilish in personality, and thus acquired the nickname Salai, the Little Devil. Vasari described him as “a graceful and beautiful youth with fine curly hair in which Leonardo greatly delighted,” and he was the subject of many sexual comment