Andrea Turini

{{Short description|Italian physician and writer}}

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=FltHAAAAYAAJ 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=hg5BAQAAMAAJ 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mCxFAQAAMAAJ The Athenaeum], 1911 p. 195.