Conference

Center for Renaissance Studies

Boccaccio 650: 1375-2025

Organized by the American Boccaccio Association

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL September 18–20, 2025

Portrait of Boccaccio from *Il Decamerone di messer Giovanni Boccaccio*, Venice: 1547 (Wing ZP 535 .G4)

Join us for the sixth triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association.

The year 2025 marks the 650th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author of the Decameron and foundational author of the European narrative prose tradition. To commemorate this milestone, the American Boccaccio Association (est. 1974) and the Newberry Library, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Chicago will celebrate the Certaldese author with a series of scholarly events.

For more information, visit https://www.newberry.org/calendar/boccaccio-650-1375-2025