Girardo Cavallazzi or Cavallazzo (Occitan: Girard or Girart Cavalaz; fl.
His only surviving work is four coblas of a partimen he exchanged with Aycart del Fossat concerning the nature of Heaven and Hell: Si paradis et enfernz son aital.
Girard's identity was unknown for many years because only his Occitan Christian name (a common one) was given in the London manuscript (Br.
However, the discovery of documents in the Biblioteca Civica in Bergamo showed Girard to have been a "Cavalaz", probably a member of the Cavallazzi family of Novara.
The Bergamasque manuscript contains a Latin rubric explaining the argument (razo) of the partimen between Girard and Aycart.