In 1476, a 24-year-old artist in Florence was anonymously accused of sodomy. The note was dropped into a wooden box outside the town hall, it named him alongside three other men, and the artist was Leonardo da Vinci. The charge was dismissed. Two months later somebody filed it again, and it was dismissed again. Both times the stated reason was the same: Florentine law required such an accusation to be signed, and whoever wrote these had not signed them. One of the four men named was Leonardo Tornabuoni, whose family was close to Lorenzo de' Medici. Historians have suspected ever since that this is the real reason the whole thing went away so quietly. He stayed under the eye of the Officers of the Night for a while afterward, a magistracy created in 1432 for the single purpose of policing men who slept with men. He never married, left no record of a relationship with a woman, and spent his adult life surrounded by young men he trained, painted and left money to. Both denunciations still sit in the Florentine record. The man they named went on to paint the Last Supper.