Excellent and measured comment. There is also the consideration that discussing what we now would call the “sexual orientation” of men at that place and time is

Excellent and measured comment. There is also the consideration that discussing what we now would call the “sexual orientation” of men at that place and time is ahisotrical: “Renaissance society did not have the concept of firm sexual orientation that exists today and many men were in practice bisexual.”: https://www.historyextra.com/period/renaissance/leonardo-da-vinci-relationship-salai-sexuality-evidence/ https://www.historyextra.com/period/renaissance/leonardo-da-...