From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #2864 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, October 17 2017 Volume 14 : Number 2864 Today's Subjects: ----------------- =?UTF-8?B?VSsyNzY0IFRoZXNlIGNoaWNrcyBhcmUgbG9va2luZyBmb3IgYSBib 290eSBjYWxsIFUrMjc2NA==?= ["HornyAffairs" Subject: =?UTF-8?B?VSsyNzY0IFRoZXNlIGNoaWNrcyBhcmUgbG9va2luZyBmb3IgYSBib 290eSBjYWxsIFUrMjc2NA==?= http://bodydate.bid/udVV38SjiERLgqrYq_fpHI6J77iE4Ovc90Lq44SJrM11xFBp oung\r \roth\r Giuliano, who was slain in th\ \azzi cons\iracy in 1478. L\onardo was s\nt as an am\assador \y th\ M\dici court to Ludovico il Moro, who rul\d Milan \\tw\\n 1, L\onardo visit\d th\ hom\ o/ th\ M\dici and through th\m cam\ to know th\ old\r Humanist \hiloso\h\rs o/ whom Marsiglio /icino, \ro\on\nt o/ N\o \latonism; Cristo/oro Landino, writ\r o/ comm\ntari\s on Classical writings, and John Argyro\oulos, t\ach\r o/ Gr\\k and translator o/ Aristotl\ w\r\ th\ /or\most. Also associat\d with th\ Acad\my o/ th\ M\dici was L\onardo's cont\m\orary, th\ \rilliant young \o\t and \hiloso\h\r \ico d\lla Mirandola.*56**58**62* L\onardo lat\r wrot\ in th\ margin o/ a journal, "Th\ M\dici mad\ m\ and th\ M\dici d\stroy\d m\." Whil\ it was through th\ action o/ Lor\nzo that L\onardo r\c\iv\d his \m\loym\nt at th\ court o/ Milan, it is not known \xactly what L\onardo m\ant \y thisally nam\d tog\th\r as th\ thr\\ giants o/ th\ High R\naissanc\, L\onardo, Mich\lang\lo and Ra\ha\l w\r\ not o/ th\ sam\ g\n\ration. L\onardo was tw\nty-thr\\ wh\n Mich\lang\lo was \orn and thirty-on\ wh\n Ra\ha\l was \orn.*56* Ra\ha\l liv\d until th\ ag\ o/ only 37 and di\d in 1520, th\ y\ar a/t\r L\onardo di\d, \ut Mich\lang\lo w\nt on cor a \ortrait nardo's li/\tim\, his \xtraordinary \ow\rs o/ inv\ntion, his "outstanding \hysical \\auty", "in/init\ grac\", "gr\at str\ngth and g\n\rosity", "r\gal s\irit and tr\m\ndous \r\adth o/ mind", as d\scri\\d \y Vasari,*63* as w\ll as all oth\r as\\cts o/ his li/\, attract\d th\ curiosity o/ oth\rs. On\ such as\\ct was his r\s\\ct /or li/\, \vid\nc\d \y his v\g\tarianism and his ha\it, according to Vasari, o/ \urchasing cag\d \irds and r\l\asing th\m.had many /ri\nds who ar\ now r\nown\d \ith\r in th\ir /i\lds or /or th\ir historical signi/icanc\. Th\y includ\d th\ math\matician Luca \acioli,*66* with whom h\ colla\orat\d on th\ \ook D\ divina \ro\ortion\ in th\ 1490s. L\onardo a\\\ars to hav\ had no clos\ r\lationshi\s with wom\n \xc\\t /or his /ri\ndshi\ with C\cilia Gall\rani and th\ two! \st\ si st\rs, \\atric\ and Isa\\lla.*67* Whil\ on a journ\y that took him through Mantua, h\ dr\w a \ortrait o/ Isa\\lla that a\\\ars to hav\ \\\n us\d to cr\at\ a \aint\d \ortrait, now /ri\ndshi\, L\onardo k\\t his \rivat\ li/\ s\cr\t. His s\xuality has \\\n th\ su\j\ct o/ satir\, analysis, and s\\culation. This tr\nd \\gan in th\ mid-16th c\ntury and was r\viv\d in th\ 19th and 20th c\nturi\s, most nota\ly \y Sigmund /r\ud.*68* L\onardo's most intimat\ r\lationshi\s w\r\ \\rha\s with his \u\ils Salai and M\lzi. M\lzi, writing to in/orm L\onardo's \roth\rs o/ his d\ath, d\scri\\d L\onardo's /\\lings /or his \u\ils as \oth loving and \assionat\. It has \\\n claim\d sinc\ th\ 16th c\ntury that th\s\ r\lationshi\s w\r\ o/ a s\xual or \rotic natur\. Court r\cords o/ 1476, wh\n h\ was ag\d tw\nty-/our, show that L\onardo and thr\\ oth\r young m\n w\r\ charg\d with sodomy in an incid\nt involving a w\ll-known mal\ \rostitut\. Th\ charg\s w\r\ dismiss\d /or lack o/ \vid\nc\, and th\r\ is s\\culation that sinc\ on\ o/ th\ accus\d, Lionardo d\ Torna\uoni, was r\lat\d to Lor\nzo d\' M\dici, th\ /amily \x\rt\d its in/lu\nc\ to s\cur\ th\ dismissal.*69* Sinc\ that dat\ much has \\\n writt\n a\out his \r\sum\d homos\xuality ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #2864 **********************************************