1250–1300 – Homosexual activity radically passes from being completely legal in the most of Europe to incurring the death penalty in most European states. 1265 – Thomas Aquinas argues that sodomy is second only to murder in the ranking of sins. 14th century 1321 – Dante's Inferno places sodomites in the Seventh Circle. 1345 -- Guido da Pisa writes a commentary on Divine Commedia, in which an illustration depicts Dante, Virgil, and homosexuals. 1347 – Rolandino Roncaglia is put on trial for sodomy, an event that caused a sensation in Italy. He confessed he "had not ever had sexual intercourses neither with his wife nor with any other woman because he didn't ever feel any carnal appetite, nor could he ever have an erection of his virile member". After his wife died of plague, Rolandino started to prostitute himself, wearing female dresses because "since he has a female look, voice and movements – although he hasn't the female orifice but has a male member and testicles – many persons considered him to be a woman because of his appearance". 15th century 1476 – Florentine court records of 1476 show that Leonardo da Vinci and three other young men were charged with sodomy, and acquitted. During the 15th century, Florence has a reputation abroad as "the capital of the sodomites" and the majority of men in the city are "at least once during their lifetimes officially incriminated for engaging in homosexual relations," according to historian Michael Rocke. 16th century 1512 - Renowned Sienese Painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi is nicknamed Il Sodoma (The Sodomite) because of his homosexual activities. Bacci embraces the name and writes verses about it. 1532 – Holy Roman Empire makes sodomy punishable by death. 1541 - Writer and noblewoman Laudomia Forteguerri publishes a series of love poems dedicated to her friend Margaret of Austria. Maddelena Campiglia is another 16th century female poet who explores the love between women in the 1580s. 1500s - Same-sex desire between women is mentioned in several late 16th century romantic comedies of Italian Renaissance theater, usually in the context of one or more characters secretly cross-dressing as the opposite sex. "I am not the first person who has loved a woman," says "the female Cesare" in the play Alessandro. "Histories, ancient and modern, are full of accounts which have reinforced this fire that consumes me." 1578 - A community of men who performed