He received his early education at the prestigious college of San Girolamo, under the guidance of the well-known humanists Guido Vannini, translator of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered in Latin hexameters, and Giuseppe Laurenzi.

When conflicts developed between Lucca and the Church he moved to Venice, where he became a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti and befriended the poets Giovanni Francesco Loredan, Leonardo Quirini and Pietro Michiel.

Torcigliani is also the dedicatee of the opera L'Ulisse errante (1644) written by the poet Giacomo Badoaro.

[4] After his death Torcigliani's works appeared under the title Echo Cortese, at Lucca, published by the Marescandoli, in three parts, the first in 1680, the second in 1681, and the third in 1683.

He is best known for his Italian translations of ancient Greek and Latin authors, and his two verse dialogues on natural science, L'astronomia and La chimica.