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

The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start

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

Steinberg's field-defining work shows how Boccaccio's Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal