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The Decameron: A Norton Critical Edition
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This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece.
Winner of the 2014 PEN USA Literary Award for TranslationThis 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.
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