| Tommaso Masini | |
| Birth Name: | Tommaso di Giovanni Masini |
| Birth Date: | 1462 |
| Birth Place: | Peretola |
| Death Date: | 1520 (aged 58) |
| Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Burial Place: | Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti |
Tommaso di Giovanni Masini (– 1520), known as Zoroastro da Peretola, was a friend and collaborator of Leonardo da Vinci.[1] [2]
According to Scipione Ammirato, he was born in Peretola, near Florence, and he was the child of a gardener,[3] although he said he was the illegitimate child of Bernardo Rucellai, Lorenzo il Magnifico brother-in-law.[2] [4]
In 1505 he returned to Florence and worked with Leonardo in The Battle of Anghiari.[5]
He was buried at the Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti.[2]