Written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 1350s, this collection of stories deals with sexuality in a way that can still make readers blush – and it has now inspired a Netflix comedy.

“The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is an inexhaustible treasure, a work to read and reread, even almost seven hundred years after it was written.” So says writer and translator Alberto ...

Boccaccio’s page-turner is The Decameron’s wellspring, but Jordan enthusiastically rattles off a list of other films and TV series that she considers in conversation with this project.It’s a ...

Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Born in 1313, Boccaccio was the illegitimate son of a wealthy Italian merchant and an unknown woman. He grew up in Florence but moved to Naples with his family as a ...

Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (which he nicknamed “The Human Comedy,” as opposed to Dante’s “Divine” one) is a collection of 100 short stories sandwiched between the exploits of a ...

A 700-year-old story – Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, written and set in Italy at the time of the Black Death – is having its day again.

How ‘The Decameron’ Showrunner Kathleen Jordan Found the Right Tone for the Plague-Set Comedy. The Netflix dark comedy is loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's short story collection set ...

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 ...

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The Decameron was banned in Italy between 1497 and 1559, long after Boccaccio's death in 1375. Boccaccio's works, which reflected individualism in a society that did not separate from church and ...