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The personal life of Leonardo da Vinci 15 April — 2 May has been a subject of interest, inquiry, and speculation since the years immediately following his death. Leonardo has long been regarded as the archetypal Renaissance man , described by the Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari as having qualities that "transcended nature" and being "marvellously endowed with beauty, grace and talent in abundance". Leonardo was born on 15 April , "at the third hour of the night" [3] in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci , in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Republic of Florence. The inclusion of the title "ser" indicated that Leonardo's father was a gentleman.

But a new opera is shining fresh light on his private passions — by depicting his intense relationships with two of his assistants. But what do we know of the man, of his passions, of Leonardo in love? Leonardo left nothing that could be read directly as a diary or journal: his interest was in the outer, rather than the inner, world. Nevertheless, writers, from the 16th-Century biographer Giorgio Vasari to Sigmund Freud, have scoured the thousands of pages of written notes left by Leonardo for clues. Five hundred years after his death — with exhibitions around Europe celebrating his art, engineering, science and ideas — a new opera celebrates a more private side of the Renaissance master. The work of composer Alex Mills and librettist Brian Mullin, Leonardo focuses on the relationship between the great artist and two of his assistants. This young man, by contrast, was from a noble Milanese family, and developed a role in the workshop akin to private secretary.

As one of the foremost intellects of world history, his brilliance survives today in artwork, statues and notebooks found throughout Italy and beyond. But for all his fame, da Vinci remains a bit of an enigma. What we do know about him paints a picture of immense genius — one of the most prolific minds of his day, if not always one of the most focused. Leonardo da Vinci was an illegitimate son. His father, a respected lawyer, and his mother, a peasant of the same town, were never married.

In Renaissance Florence, a number of designated boxes placed throughout the city allowed citizens to make anonymous denunciations of various moral crimes—in , for example, the artist-monk Filippo Lippi was accused of fathering a child with a nun. But the crime that the government was really trying to control was sodomy, so notoriously prevalent that contemporary German slang for a homosexual was Florenzer. The common nature of the offense did not erase the threat of serious consequences.