Decameron

This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccios masterpiece.Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for TranslationThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorns translation of The Decameron. Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps. Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio. Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.