About the Author

Wayne A. Rebhorn is the Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, where he teaches English, Italian, and comparative literature. His translation of Boccaccio's Decameron won the 2014 PEN Center USA's Literary Award for Translation.

Reviews

"An inexhaustibly rich late-medieval feast... a celebration of the sheer pleasure of being alive." -- Stephen Greenblatt
"...fluent and elegant new translation...His [Rebhorn's] introduction and notes are all we could wish for and the achievement genuinely honours its original." -- Jonathan Keates - The Telegraph