Jacopo Saltarelli

Jacopo d' Andrea Saltarelli (* around 1459 in Florence; ? † ) was a painter and model was also gay prostitution after.

Life

In April 1476 the 17 -year-old Jacopo d' Andrea Saltarelli is together with Leonardo da Vinci of sodomy ( herewith was meant in the Middle Ages homosexuality) have been accused. Written notification, called the next da Vinci and his three students Bartolomeo di Pasquino, and Lionardo de Tornabuoni Baccino as perpetrators, was anonymously dropped into a Tamburo front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

The process aroused in Florence and surroundings quite a stir. The matter was brought within two months twice in court, but without witnesses or evidence existed. Through the intercession of the families of the other defendants and their teacher Andrea del Verrocchio, the lawsuit was dropped and the four men released from prison innocent.