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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The cast of Netflix's latest dark comedy 'The Decameron,' including Tony Hale and Zosia Mamet, share tidbits from making the Black Death-set series.

Kathleen Jordan’s piquant take on the 14th-century masterpiece by Giovanni Boccaccio is joyfully unfaithful to its source material.

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 ...

Upon arriving at the villa, the party finds their host absent but his accommodating steward (the great Tony Hale) and surly, noble-hating cook (Leila Farzad, a highlight of the season’s second ...

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