Talk:The Decameron

Please see the novel. I'm not sure who considered the Decameron 'the first novel', but it sure isn't considered that any more. It *might* be considered the first novel written in Western Europe in the Renaissance, but it is later than, for example, Apuleius in Latin (a clear model for all Renaissance prose authors) or the Tale of Genji[?] in Japanese. Boccaccio will have to rest on his own merits, not on 'priority'. --MichaelTinkler