Editing David and Jonathan (section)

=== Medieval and Renaissance allusions ===
[[File:Jonathan Embraces David from Caspar Luiken.jpg|thumbnail|Jonathan embraces David from [[Caspar Luiken]]'s {{lang|la|Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus Representatae}} (1712)]]
[[Medieval]] literature occasionally drew upon the biblical relationship between David and Jonathan to underline strong personal, intimate friendships and homoerotic relationships between men.<ref>Rocke, Michael. 1996. ''Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence''. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press{{ISBN?}}{{page needed|date=December 2021}}</ref>

The anonymous {{lang|la|[[Vita Edwardi Secundi]]}}, {{circa|1326 AD}}, wrote: "Indeed I do remember to have heard that one man so loved another. Jonathan cherished David, [[Achilles]] loved [[Patroclus]]." And thus, [[King Edward II]] wept for his dead lover [[Piers Gaveston]] as: "... David had mourned for Jonathan.".<ref>W.R. Childs, Ed. (2005). ''Vita Edwardi Secundi''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-927594-7}}{{page needed|date=December 2021}}</ref> Similarly, [[Roger of Hoveden]], a twelfth-century chronicler, deliberately drew comparisons in his description of "The King of France ([[Philip II Augustus]]) [who] loved him ([[Richard the Lionheart]]) as his own soul."<ref>Roger of Hoveden, ''The Annals'', trans. Henry T. Riley, 2.&nbsp;Vols. London: H.G. Bohn, 1853; repr. New York: AMS Press, 1968{{page needed|date=December 2021}}</ref>

The Renaissance artists [[Donatello]] and [[Michelangelo]] both brought out strong [[homoerotic]] elements in their sculptural depictions of the youthful David, which were [[David (Donatello, marble)|bronze]] and [[David (Michelangelo)|marble]], respectively.<ref>Rocke, Michael. 1996. ''Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence''. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.{{page needed|date=December 2021}}{{ISBN?}}</ref>