 More recently the Friulian writer Marco Salvador has devoted a fiction trilogy to the Lombard kingdom.The figure of Bertoldo/Berthold, a humble and clever farmer from Retorbido, who lived during the reign of Alboin (568-572), inspired many oral traditions throughout the Middle Ages and early modern period.In them the 17th-century scholar Giulio Cesare Croce found inspiration in his "Le sottilissime astutie di Bertoldo" ("the smart craftiness of Berthold") (1606), to which, in 1608, he added "Le piacevoli et ridicolose simplicità di Bertoldino" ("The pleasant and ridiculous simplicity of Little Berthold"), about Berthold's son.