The guy who wrote the book on heterosexual marriage & family had some VERY homosexual tendencies
hot, shirtless men appearing in paintings and sculptures everywhere. But did you know even the man who wrote the literal book on heterosexual marriage and the nuclear family, Leon Battista Alberti, couldn’t help but get a little queer?I libri della famiglia (On the Family) is a treatise about marriage, the nuclear family, how to raise children, and the role of the head of the household.
While sexuality was complicated in the 15th century, so we can’t definitively pin a rainbow flag on this talented Renaissance fellow, he’s the definition of queer-coded.
Renaissance scholars who focus on Alberti’s writings have frequently discussed his likely homosexuality. By modern standards, Alberti is a misogynist.
Alexa play “Another White Boy With A Podcast.” But social bonding and gender roles were vastly different in the Renaissance, formally coded by men like him, whose writing has long impacted how society thinks about marriage and family.
