In the preface to the Decameron Boccaccio describes Florentine society laid waste by bubonic plague in the mid-14th century. But before he gets to that he has a confession for the reader: he has been ...

Now, doesn't that some like an enthralling binge-watch?! The Decameron was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of short stories of the same name, which was published back in the 14th century.

Briefly examining several emended passages in the 1573 expurgated edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, the essay turns to Borghini’s reliance in his 1574 Annotationi on his extensive studies of ...

But no dusty tome got a bigger boost than Giovanni Boccaccio’s early-Renaissance classic The Decameron. Virtual book clubs sprung up to dissect it. The New York Times commissioned stories from ...

That’s what we imagine the people at Netflix said when they decided to make a twisted adaptation of The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century short story collection that follows a ...

Written between 1348 and 1353, the Decameron is a prescription for psychological survival, a way of mentally distancing from today’s death counts and grim economic forecasts.