Andrea Turini or Thurini (circa 1473 – 1543) was an Italian physician and writer.
Born in Pescia in Tuscany, he became a professor of medicine at the University of Pisa.The Popes and Science, by James Joseph Walsh, Fordham University Press, 1915, p. 444. He became a prominent physician, serving both Popes Clement VII and Paul III. He also was a physician for the French kings Louis XII and Francis I. He published a book on his medical practice (Opera Andreae Thurini) in 1545.Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); p. 446. Tom Virzi attributed a Portrait of a Man and a Dog, depicting Turini, to Raphael in 1910. Andrea's brother Baldassare had been a datary in the papal court and was a friend of Raphael.The Athenaeum, 1911 p. 195.
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