![]() Being an educated man (a former Cambridge scholar), he kept a journal of his experiences in Rome which provides us with a detailed record of the working practices of 17 th century artists in their studios. By 1650, following the King's defeat in the Civil War, Symonds had fled England and was living in Rome, indulging his love of fine art and happily spending his borrowed money on books, prints and paintings (Roy, 2004). Symonds served as a soldier in the King's Lifeguard from 1643-46. ![]() But such intimate feelings may be discerned in the case Richard Symonds, an English Civil War trooper. It is understandable, then, that evidence for such relationships is scanty. In a historical period where homosexuality was roundly condemned, early-modern same-sex relationships were necessarily secretive. ![]()
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