Gian giacomo caprotti biography

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"Prese in Milano Salaí Milanese per suo creato, il quale era vaghissimo di grazia e di bellezza, avendo begli capegli, ricci et inanellati, de’ quali Lionardo si dilettò molto; et a lui insegnò molte cose dell’arte, e certi lavori che in Milano si dicono essere di Salaí, furono ritocchi da Lionardo." --Vite

Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, nicknamed Salai or Il Salaino ("The Little Unclean One" i.e., the devil) was a companion of Leonardo Da Vinci for thirty years.

Records show that, after the sodomy trial, Leonardo had two long-lasting associations with young men. These were his pupils who entered his household in at the age of 10, and Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Milan aristocrat who became apprenticed to Leonardo in

Vasari describes Salai as "a graceful and beautiful youth with fine curly hair," and his name ap