Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

* Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's 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.