Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola

[2] In 1365 he went on a diplomatic mission on behalf of the city, to Avignon and Pope Urban V.[3] At the time members of the Alidosi family dominated Imola, and other citizens looked to the papacy for a change.

The petition brought by Benvenuto and others failed;[2] the local political situation at home caused him to move on without returning, going to Bologna, where he made a living as a teacher.

Charles Eliot Norton considered that Benvenuto's commentary on Dante had "a value beyond that of any of the other fourteenth-century commentators".

It influenced Juan de Mena, in particular, via Giovanni da Serravalle who had heard Benvenuto teach.

[8] Benvenuto acknowledged influence himself from the tradition of Averroes and Hermannus Alemannus, as well as Boccacio.