In 1473 he joined the retinue which escorted Eleonora of Aragon, the daughter of Ferdinand I, to meet her spouse, Ercole, at Ferrara.
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Up to the year of his marriage to Taddea Gonzaga, the daughter of the Count of Novellara (1472), he had received many marks of favour from Borso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, having been sent to meet Frederick III (1469), and afterwards visiting Pope Paul II (1471) in the train of Borso.
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Boiardo was born at, or near, Scandiano (today's province of Reggio Emilia); the son of Giovanni di Feltrino and Lucia Strozzi, he was of noble lineage, ranking as Count of Scandiano, with seignorial power over Arceto, Casalgrande, Gesso, and Torricella.
Poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, whose family ruled Scandiano in the fifteenth century;
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The Italian name Vegliantino was initially used in the Italian romances (he is found as such in Luigi Pulci's Morgante), but Matteo Maria Boiardo renamed him Brigliadoro in his Orlando Innamorato, and this is the name that is also used in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.