From there, he traveled to Paris in 1860, to work with cavaliere Giuseppe Deverà, who later became a professor at the Accademia Albertina of Turin.
Ginori then assigned him to the Doccia Porcelain factory, as head designer and modeller, and manager of the plant.
Continuing great models both in pots and in the majolica, he was awarded medal of collaboration at the 1873 Exposition of Vienna.
He branched out on his own, opening in 1874 the Porta San Frediano, a factory of terra cotta statuettes, producing of glazed majolica in different genres both ancient and modern.
Torelli made a stucco statuary group of an episode of the Battle of Palestro, with Vittorio Emanuele on horseback leading a charge, and the Zouaves dissuading him from entering into the danger.