LGBTQ Individuals and Academics of the Renaissance Period
From QueerBio.com
France
- Michel de Montaigne - philosopher
- Theophile de Viau - poet
- Jean-Baptiste Lully - composer
- Marc-Antoine Muret - law
Germany
- George Frederic Handel - composer
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann - historian
Great Britain
- Sir Francis Bacon - politician
- Alan Bray - activist and renaissance scholar
- King James I - politics
- William Shakespeare - writer
- Sir Philip Sidney - poet
- John Addington Symonds - writer
Italy
- Pietro Aretino - poet and playwright
- Bronzino - painter
- Antonio Canova - sculptor
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - painter
- Arcangelo Corelli - musician and composer
- Leonardo Da Vinci - artist, inventor, engineer, architect
- Marsilio Ficino - academic
- Pope Leo X - religion
- Ferdinando II de' Medici - politics
- Giovanni Gastone Medici - politics
- Buonarroti Michelangelo - painter
- Pontormo - painter
Portugal
- Francisco Correa Netto - religion
Sweden
- Kristina - politics, Queen
The Netherlands
- Francois Duquesnoy - sculptor
- Jerome Duquesnoy - sculptor
United States
- Gary Ferguson - academic
- James M. Saslow - academic
