Zoroaster da Peretola (or Zoroastro) was such an extravagant figure that he deserves a little insight. He was actually called Tommaso Masini and was born in 1462 in the village of Peretola. Peretola is located where nowaday is the entrance of the A-1 highway and the airport of Florence. Tommaso the son of a simple greengrocer, but he was telling around that he was instead an illegitimate son of the powerful and rich Bernardo Rucellai. He chose Zoroaster as a stage name to give himself an aura of exotic mystery and strengthen his sinister reputation as a necromancer, magician and alchemist.