[55] “Italian literature,” remarks Symonds, “can show the Rime Burlesche, Becadelli’s Hermaphroditus, the Canti Carnascialeschi, the Macaronic poems of Fidentius, and the remarkably outspoken romance entitled Alcibiade Fanciullo a Scola.”

[56] The life of Muret has been well written by C. Dejob, Marc-Antoine Muret, 1881.

[57] F.M.  Nichols, Epistles of Erasmus, vol. i, pp. 44-55.

[58] Burckhardt, Die Kultur der Renaissance, vol. ii, Excursus ci.

[59] F. de Gaudenzi in ch. v of his Studio Psico-patologico sopra T. Tasso (1899) deals fully with the poet’s homosexual tendencies.

[60] Herbert P. Horne, Leonardo da Vinci, 1903, p. 12.

[61] S. Freud, Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci, 1910.

[62] See Parlagreco, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Naples, 1888; Ludwig von Scheffler, Michelangelo:  Ein Renaissance Studie, 1892; Archivo di Psichiatria, vol. xv, fasc. i, ii, p. 129; J.A.  Symonds, Life of Michelangelo, 1893; Dr. Jur.  Numa Praetorius, “Michel Angelo’s Urningtum,” Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. ii, 1899, pp, 254-267.

[63] J.A.  Symonds, Life of Michelangelo, vol. ii, p. 384.

[64] Sodoma’s life and temperament have been studied and his pictures copiously reproduced by Elisar von Kupffer, Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, Bd. ix, 1908, p. 71 et seq., and by R.H.  Hobart Cust, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi.

[65] Cellini, Life, translated by J.A.  Symonds, introduction, p. xxxv, and p. 448.  Queringhi (La Psiche di B. Cellini, 1913) argues that Cellini was not homosexual.

[66] See the interesting account of Duquesnoy by Eekhoud (Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, Bd. ii, 1899), an eminent Belgian novelist who has himself been subjected to prosecution on account of the pictures of homosexuality in his novels and stories, Escal-Vigor and Le Cycle Patibulaire (see Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, Bd. iii, 1901).

[67] See Justi’s Life of Winkelmann, and also Moll’s Die Kontraere Sexualempfindung, third edition, 1899, pp. 122-126.  In this work, as well as in Raffalovich’s Uranisme et Unisexualite, as also in Moll’s Beruehmte Homosexuelle (1910) and Hirschfeld’s Die Homosexualitaet, p. 650 et seq., there will be found some account of many eminent men who are, on more or less reliable grounds, suspected of homosexuality.  Other German writers brought forward as inverted are Platen, K.P.  Moritz, and Iffland.  Platen was clearly a congenital invert, who sought, however, the satisfaction of his impulses in Platonic friendship; his homosexual poems and the recently published unabridged edition of his diary render him an interesting object of study; see for a sympathetic account of him, Ludwig Frey, “Aus