GIAMBULLARI, BERNARDO. - Florentine poet, b. in 1450, d. in 1529. Father of the historian Pierfrancesco, a member of the Magnifico’s circle and later a courtier of Leone X, to whom he addressed the Sonetti di Biagio del Capperone.
He versified in popular style the life of s. Giovanni Gualberto and other saints’ stories, tales in ottava rima, the satire Il sonaggio delle donne, and a long addition to the Ciriffo Calvanico of Luca and Luigi Pulci. As was customary, he composed laudi and spiritual verses alongside carnival songs, ballads, sonnets, and rispetti. An initiator of the rural idyll with the Nenicia da Barberino (which, now that its attribution to Lorenzo de' Medici has been disproved, must be assigned to him), he found in the Mugello vernacular an original form of expression. With the Contensione di Mona Costanza and the Contrasto di Ton di Puccetto (unpublished), likewise in the vernacular, he provided the very earliest examples of rustic comedy.