In 1499 Kaspar Hochfeder of Metz published the German prose romance »Florio und Bianceffora«, a translation of Boccaccio's early work »Il Filocolo«. In engaging with the work's specific transmission situation, the study offers the first detailed analysis of the translation, examining the language structures and communicative resources of the prose romance in comparison with the source text and situating the work in the context of contemporaneous translated literature and other prose romances in German.