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May. 31st, 2006 05:23 pmWikipedia blows my mind.
# Pope Julius III and Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte
* The future pope hired the illiterate 14-year-old street urchin for his charms in 1547. Upon being appointed pope in 1550, he raised the boy to the post of cardinal and indulged in pederastic orgies with him and other young cardinals. (Larivière, 1997)
# Charles de Luynes and Louis XIII of France
* Counselor and friend to the Dauphin who was 23 years his junior, de Luynes was his lover from at least 1615, when the future Louis XIII - already experienced in male love - was 14.
# Hans Hermann von Katte and Frederick II of Prussia
* The 18-year-old crown prince Frederick wanted to escape from his brutal father in 1730. He asked his friend von Katte for help, but they didn't get very far. The king showed no mercy - he sentenced von Katte to death and forced his son to watch the execution.
# William Thomas Beckford and William Courtenay
* Beckford, 19, fell in love with Courtenay, 10, nicknamed Kitty and "one of the most beautiful boys in England," in 1789. Both pursued lifelong involvement with boys.
# Oscar Wilde and Robert Baldwin Ross
* Ross, at 17 a journalist and future literary executor to Wilde, seduced his mentor, virginal and 32 in 1886.
Giovanni Comisso and Guido Bottegal
* In 1943 the novelist Comisso (1895 - 1969) fell in love with the 16 years old Guido, who later was shot by partisans for being mistaken for a fascist spy
# Pope Julius III and Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte
* The future pope hired the illiterate 14-year-old street urchin for his charms in 1547. Upon being appointed pope in 1550, he raised the boy to the post of cardinal and indulged in pederastic orgies with him and other young cardinals. (Larivière, 1997)
# Charles de Luynes and Louis XIII of France
* Counselor and friend to the Dauphin who was 23 years his junior, de Luynes was his lover from at least 1615, when the future Louis XIII - already experienced in male love - was 14.
# Hans Hermann von Katte and Frederick II of Prussia
* The 18-year-old crown prince Frederick wanted to escape from his brutal father in 1730. He asked his friend von Katte for help, but they didn't get very far. The king showed no mercy - he sentenced von Katte to death and forced his son to watch the execution.
# William Thomas Beckford and William Courtenay
* Beckford, 19, fell in love with Courtenay, 10, nicknamed Kitty and "one of the most beautiful boys in England," in 1789. Both pursued lifelong involvement with boys.
# Oscar Wilde and Robert Baldwin Ross
* Ross, at 17 a journalist and future literary executor to Wilde, seduced his mentor, virginal and 32 in 1886.
Giovanni Comisso and Guido Bottegal
* In 1943 the novelist Comisso (1895 - 1969) fell in love with the 16 years old Guido, who later was shot by partisans for being mistaken for a fascist spy
