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was also the most representative figure of the goldsmith’s art in Siena during the first half of the 14th century, as Vasari says in his Commentary on the Life of Pollaiuolo.
The Baptismal Font in the Baptistery of Siena is the masterpiece in which the bronze reliefs realised together with his father Turino are there next to those of the greatest artists of the time, such as Jacopo della Quercia, Donatello, and Ghiberti, whose very close friend he became.
The past history of the house testifies that members of the Torrini Family covered the prestigious post of Prior in Siena a good 28 times, thus acquiring the title of "Noble of Siena". This was around the middle of the 15th century.
Towards 1500, as a consequence of the war between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, or perhaps more simply because the building of the Duomo was completed, the Turini family returned to their native region, the Mugello, and then went to Umbria in 1700. They then returned to be Florentines in the 18th-19th centuries. Several documents give us historical certainty that their activity continued. Information has been found on the goldsmith’s workshop of
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