[54] Westermarck, Origin and Development of Moral Ideas, vol. ii, ch. xliii.

[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 für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. ii, 1899, pp, 254-267.

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