Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for TranslationThis Norton Critical Edition includes:#65533; Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron. #65533; Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Wayne A. Rebhorn, along with three maps. #65533; Biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce along with literary studies by Francesco Petrarca, Andreas Capellanus, and Boccaccio. #65533; Eleven critical essays, including those by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Millicent Marcus, Teodolinda Barolini, Susanne L. Wofford, Luciano Rossi, and Richard Kuhns. #65533; A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.