Born in Florence (1827-1896). A descendant of Jacopus, the founder of the homonymous Casato Orafo, the Torrini’s Lineage in the 14th century. Giocondo undoubtedly played a leading role in the Universal Expositions held in the second half of the 19th century, presenting himself with his refined goldsmith creations and his mosaics that earned him international fame, as well as prizes and mentions traced to the catalogs of the time.
Lorenzo Ghiberti was born in 1378 in Florence from an extra-marital relationship which in his youth led him to have several misunderstandings with the society of the time. His apprenticeship began at the goldsmith's shop of his father Bartolo di Michele called "Bartoluccio".
Six hundred years ago began the construction of the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Cathedral of Florence. The cathedral was built by Filippo Brunelleschi, an architect, engineer, sculptor, goldsmith and Italian Renaissance set designer; born in Florence in 1377. He was one of the three great founders of the Florentine Renaissance, with Donatello and Masaccio.
"Ladies and gentlemen, grasping the flesh from the plate with your fingers is considered intolerable in the city from which I come. There are better methods: "Observed" Caterina de' Medici. The noble Florentine lady, for the first time in history, showed the first meal fork at the court of France.
At the beginning of the 60s of the twentieth century, Torrini 1369 decided to accompany their jewelry with boxes that told the story of Florence. The idea of making a book-shaped jewelry box was born as a tribute to the Renaissance, for which Florence is known throughout the world. Each boxis handmade with love by artisan bookbinders from the historic center of Florence.
Oro Nativo® is an ancient gold finishing process, handed down from generation to generation within the Torrini family. This technique was typical of the ancient Florentine goldsmith's workshops at the end of 1500 AD. It is a semi-gloss finish, which enhances the naturalcolour of gold, without the use of chemical procedures.
The oldest known example of this art of producing is a 6,000-year old amulet from Indus valley civilization. Other examples from “Late Cycladic” are datable in the 17th century BC. Columella, a Roman writer of the 1st century AD, mentions the processing of wax from beehives in De Re Rustica, perhaps for casting.
The Fiorino d'Oro of 1252 was born as an expression of a city and a county, the Republic of Florence, which in the middle of the thirteenth century was experiencing a prodigious expansion of trade: Florentine merchants and bankers, in fact, had close relations with Naples, Genoa, Venice and other Italian trading centers, not to mention France, England, Spain and Flanders.
