There are various versions of the origins of the little statue. The first is given by Girolamo Macchi, a compiler of news about Siena, who reports that it was made in 1412 by Giovanni Battista Tagliaborse, a potter in the Camollia district, and bought by a nobleman from Modena, one Sciti di Madonna. He took it to the house of a prostitute from Pistoia named Lisabetta Turini, who lived on the . . .