Vêtir l’humilité: de Bono Giamboni à Boccacce

Representations of humility deserve far morescholarly attention and analysis than they have thus farreceived only by way of exception. This paper aims atpartially filling this historiographical gap by consideringtopical accounts of humility in some Italian sources fromthe late 13th - early 14th centuries, especially in BonoGiamboni, Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. Inparticular, the paper focuses on the recurring theme of“dressing humility” in the works of the above mentionedauthors with the aim to study and contextualize semanticshifts and usages of a literal and metaphorical juxtaposition– that of humility and dress – which already knew along biblical and monastic tradition