Born in
Vicenza, Buffolente graduated from the
Brera Academy and started her career in 1941, collaborating with the cartoonist Giuseppe Cappadonia and illustrating short stories for the publisher Edital. In 1942 she created together with
Leone Cimpellin her first comic strip series,
Petto di Pollo, published by
Edizioni Alpe. After the war, Boffolente specialized in adventure and western comics, notably drawing the series
Tom Mix, its spin-off
Tom Bill,
Hello Jim,
Furio Mascherato. In 1948 she started an over twenty-year long collaboration with the publisher Editrice Universo, for which she realized various series including
Liberty Kid for the magazine
Intrepido and
Fiordistella for
Il Monello. In the 1970s Boffolente illustrated
Piccolo Ranger and created the series
Gun Gallon,
Homicron and
Nick Reporter for the French market, and the series
Reno Kid for the German market. Starting from 1990 she drew several
Comandante Mark comic books. ==References==