This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.

Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The ‘Decameron’ Third Da

The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron - a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and

In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death aro

This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constit