The International Boccaccio Edition will publish the complete works, in both vernacular and Latin, of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). The series comprises 13 volumes in total, organized by literary genre, which are edited by specialists selected from among the most experienced international scholars of Boccaccio and medieval literature. In order to meet the needs of an international audience, English is the publication language for most metatexts, but each volume will provide a scholarly preface as well as a detailed philological and linguistic introduction, all in Italian. Our books will be published in print at affordable prices by the scholarly publisher Quod Manet, but as the series grows future editions will be made available in open access as well. Launched in 2025, the 650th anniversary of Boccaccio’s death, the IBE intends to provide updated, scholarly editions of his works to a truly international readership.

The series’ intended timeline: 2026-2035. Each volume will contain:

• The General Editors’ preface (in Italian)
• Introduction part 1: hermeneutical perspectives on the text (in English)
• Introduction part 2: philological analysis, discussion of linguistic features of the text (in Italian)
• Original text (Latin or Italian)
• Translation (in English)
• Minor notes referring to short passages of the text, mostly on linguistic and semantic aspects (in English)
• Longer notes concerning the interpretation of the text, subdivided according to its macrostructure (in English)
• Thorough indices and bibliography