GIAMBONI, BONO. — A Florentine, of the ancient Vecchio family, judge and man of letters of the second half of the 13th century.
He apparently translated into the vernacular, and with particular artistic merit, B. Latini’s Tesoro, Vegetius’s Arte della guerra, P. Orosio’s Storie, Martin of Braga’s Formula honestae vitae, and Innocent III’s De contemptu mundi; and
wrote an Introduzione alla virtù (considered by some a translation into the vernacular, by others an original work), an allegorical journey in which Philosophy is the gateway to Faith, and Faith to the Virtues, while Faith and the Virtues defeat the Vices, Idolatry, Judaism, Heresy, and Islam.
BIBL.: F. Tassi, Delle storie di P. Orosio contro i pagani, libri VII, Firenze 1849; R. Davidsohn, Forsch. z. Gesch. von Floreuz, III, Berlino 1907, p. 362 ff.; S. Debenedetti, B. G., in Studi medievali, 4 (1942-13), pp. 271-78; G. Bertoni, Il Duecento, Milano 1939, pp. 328-29, 335-36. Alberto Chiari