Rambertino di Guido Buvalelli[1] (1170 or 1180 – September 1221), a Bolognese judge, statesman, diplomat, and poet, was the earliest of the podestà-troubadours of thirteenth-century Lombardy. He served at one time or other as podestà of Brescia, Milan, Parma, Mantua, Genoa, and Verona. Ten of his Occitan poems survive, but none with an accompanying melody. He is usually regarded as the first native Italian troubadour, though Cossezen and Peire de la Caravana may precede him. His reputation has secured a street named in his honour in his birthplace: the Via Buvalelli Rambertino in Bologna.
- ^ His first name is also given as Lambertino (a diminutive of Lambert/Lamberto) and his surname appears in various forms in contemporary Latin: Bonarellis, Brumarello, Buraldo, Bucanello, Bovarellus, and de Bivialdo. "di Guido" implies that Guido (Guy) was his father's name and "Buvalelli" that the name of his grandfather or the founding father of his family was Buvalello (diminutive of Buvalo). His standardised Occitan name is Lamberti (or Ramberti) de Buvalel. Occitan variations include Rambertin, Lambertin, Rambertins, and Rabertis, as well as Bonarel, Bonarelh, and Buvarel.