On his 1531 tax return, Sodoma listed among his possessions a monkey, a raven, an owl, a peacock, over thirty grown children, and "three wicked brutes, that is, three women." Long before the concept of a "Bohemian" lifestyle existed, he perfected an anti-middle-class way of living. According to Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi received the nickname Sodoma "because he always surrounded himsel
