The Decameron

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Giovanni Boccaccio, Wayne A. Rebhorn (Editor)

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Paperback | 3 November 2015 | Edition Number 1

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560 Pages

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Critical

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2.35 x 1.42 x 0.15

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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.

Industry Reviews

Probably the dirtiest great book in the Western canon. . . . Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron is a thoughtful piece of work, with populist intentions. . . . If you want the true, mixed, fourteenth-century book that Boccaccio wrote, choose Rebhorn.--Joan Acocella "The New Yorker"
Wayne A. Rebhorn succeeds in retaining the quiddities of Giovanni Boccaccio's original Decameron while rendering a medieval Italian text intelligible to the modern reader of English. His scrupulously detailed translation infuses the text with fresh energy and delicately preserves Boccaccio's titillating use of language.-- "Heliotropia"

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