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Handel left his home in Germany, spent years in Florence and Rome, and settled in London.
Handel lived as a guest in aristocratic homes, and composed works for his patrons and hosts, primarily for private entertainments.
In both Italy and England his patrons moved in circles in which same-sex desire was commonplace — a fact that is not without significance, for his output exhibits a clear homosexual subtext.
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