The wildest Netflix original series of the summer arrived on July 25 with the release of the brand-new dark comedy The ...

In the first episode of The Decameron, Netflix’s new series about a group of medieval Italians eluding the plague at a Tuscan villa, a wailing man clutching his beloved’s corpse galvanizes an ...

Netflix’s The Decameron follows a Lord Of The Flies-esque ... “As the city of Florence succumbs to the plague, this exclusive handful of invites indulge in a wine-soaked and debaucherous ...

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. SHARP Professor ...

Boccaccio’s Decameron supports this finding: the collection of short stories begins with a detailed and dramatic description of the plague and the collapse of Florence’s urban order resulting from it.

The series examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic, as a cast of misfits tries to outlast the bubonic plague pandemic in 1348 Florence. The Decameron also ...

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.