LGBTQ Individuals and Academics of the Renaissance Period
From QueerBio.com
Germany
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann - historian
Great Britain
- Alan Bray - activist and renaissance scholar
- Sir Philip Sidney - poet
- John Addington Symonds - writer
Italy
- Pietro Aretino - poet and playwright
- Leonardo Da Vinci - artist, inventor, engineer, architect
- Marsilio Ficino - academic
- Buonarroti Michelangelo - painter
United States
- Gary Ferguson - academic
- James M. Saslow - academic