![]() Although any time he may have spent in jail was brief, and the case was dismissed, two months later, for lack of corroborating witnesses, he had plenty of time to ponder the possible legal punishments: a large fine, public humiliation, exile, burning at the stake. There is little doubt that Leonardo was arrested. ![]() In 1476, Leonardo da Vinci, on the verge of his twenty-fourth birthday, was named as one of four men who had practiced “such wickedness” with the seventeen-year-old apprentice of a local goldsmith. The common nature of the offense did not erase the threat of serious consequences. 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. In Renaissance Florence, a number of designated boxes placed throughout the city allowed citizens to make anonymous denunciations of various moral crimes-in 1461, for example, the artist-monk Filippo Lippi was accused of fathering a child with a nun. Illustration by Tamara Shopsin engraving from Hulton Archive / Getty I hope you will.A new biography celebrates the great artist’s more scientific innovations. I don't know what you're talking about, said Measure, "but if you think you can talk to Tenskwa-Tawa, then I hope you'll do it. "Verily, you're already a dear friend, but you're a lawyer, not a woodsman or a wandering tradesman or a river rat or whatever the rest of us are." I hope you'll forgive my presumption, but I crave the chance to be the one as brings the good news to Vigor Church, if they're set free."Īlvin looked at him oddly. So I can bring back word about what Tenskwa-Tawa says. "Not the whole road, but as far as the weavers. I mean to belittle no one else by saying that." May it not be taken as an offense, I beg you, if I say that I'd be glad of a chance to learn from you directly for a while, Alvin. "Measure's learned from you, and you from him, since you're brothers and have been for a long time. You got a pigeon knows the way to the Red Prophet's wigwam? asked Horace, scoffing. I'm not married either, said Verily Cooper. He can teach you as well as I can, and you can help him. If it comes to that, said Miss Larner, "there might be another way to talk to Tenskwa-Tawa without crossing the river." Maybe Tenskwa-Tawa can tell you, said Measure. One way or another, though, said Verity Cooper, "you will leave this place as soon as the trial's over." If he knows, then he could have told me back when you and I was boys and in his company, said Alvin. Whatever I find out at the weaver's house, whatever happens when and if I talk to Tenskwa-Tawa, I still have to learn how to build the Crystal City." It's only the single ones, really, who are free to wander as I'll have to wander. And you have responsibilities, too, you married men. ![]() "Rut there's work to be done here, especially if the curse is lifted. I don't want to travel alone, said Alvin. "For your sake and the sake of my family and friends in Vigor Church, I'll ask even though I fear the answer will be worse than no." Sometimes you'll need what Mike Fink has to offer. "There'll be laws and courts, sheriffs and jails and writs wherever you go. What could be worse than no? asked Arthur Stuart.Īll the more reason you need me, said Verily. I know a weaver, said Miss Larner, "who has a door that opens into the west, and I know of a man named Isaac who uses that door." She looked at Alvin, and he nodded. ![]()
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