Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo[2][3] (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

[4] The opera was begun somewhere around the fall of 1878[5][6] and first published in 1879 by the August Cranz company and performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879.

An English translation and adaptation was completed in 1880 by Dexter Smith[7] and later by Oscar Weil and Gustav Hinrichs around 1883.

In early-Renaissance Florence, the erotic novellas of the poet Boccaccio cause a stir and the locals are divided into the female fans of his scandalous tales and their jealous husbands.

A plot is hatched by the husbands to chase Boccaccio from the city and have him locked up.