3. Called "boys", but the ages of the other "boys" that are given in the text as GG's prostitutes are around twenty, so not necessarily pedophilia here.
I wrote "not necessarily pedophilia" here, because Wikipedia told me that Giuliano Dami was born in 1683, and Acton told me that he was picked out by GG for his sexual attractiveness sometime before the 1697 marriage, i.e. when he was 12-14 and GG was 24-26. But now that I've read further in the Dami bio and discovered that there's documentary evidence that Giuliano was not picked out for his sexual attractiveness until sometime between 1705 and 1707, i.e when he was 22-24, I retract my concerns.
Given that even the tabloid-y anonymous manuscript doesn't mention any ages younger than 19 or 20 that I recall (and I'm not perfect, but I was keeping an eye out), it's looking like GG's preferred age for starting a relationship with a hot young man was the same as Heinrich's: about 19-23. Like Heinrich, he didn't necessarily drop them once the age of peak beauty had been passed, but could keep an emotional relationship going for decades (Giuliano was with GG for 30 years, until GG's death), and he wasn't sexually faithful.
Sorry, Heinrich, but the age of attractiveness made you the natural comparison. I'm not comparing you in any other respect!
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Gian Gastone
Date: 2021-11-20 06:25 pm (UTC)I wrote "not necessarily pedophilia" here, because Wikipedia told me that Giuliano Dami was born in 1683, and Acton told me that he was picked out by GG for his sexual attractiveness sometime before the 1697 marriage, i.e. when he was 12-14 and GG was 24-26. But now that I've read further in the Dami bio and discovered that there's documentary evidence that Giuliano was not picked out for his sexual attractiveness until sometime between 1705 and 1707, i.e when he was 22-24, I retract my concerns.
Given that even the tabloid-y anonymous manuscript doesn't mention any ages younger than 19 or 20 that I recall (and I'm not perfect, but I was keeping an eye out), it's looking like GG's preferred age for starting a relationship with a hot young man was the same as Heinrich's: about 19-23. Like Heinrich, he didn't necessarily drop them once the age of peak beauty had been passed, but could keep an emotional relationship going for decades (Giuliano was with GG for 30 years, until GG's death), and he wasn't sexually faithful.
Sorry, Heinrich, but the age of attractiveness made you the natural comparison. I'm not comparing you in any other respect!