Torrigiano, PIETRO (1470-1522), the Florentine sculptor who, according to Cellini, broke Michelangelo's nose in a quarrel, served as a mercenary soldier, and came to England in 1509 to erect the tomb of Henry VII. and his queen, still in Westminster. He executed other works which were destroyed at the Reformation; and settling in Spain, died in the prisons of the Inquisition.
Torrigiano, PIETRO
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 249
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