‘Obviously, that’s something we’ve seen in the last few years, in particular with COVID.’ She’s not the only writer to have been inspired by Boccaccio’s work: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (written ...

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Netflix's The Decameron, a dark comedy miniseries, has proven a hit with fans for its 'absurd' characters and 'hilarious' script.

“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 ...

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

When I heard that Netflix was producing a version of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century masterpiece, the Decameron, I was thrilled. The book, which famously uses the 1348 Black Death as the backdrop, ...

The premise of Boccaccio’s “The Decameron” has been incredibly topical in recent years; the image of a group of elites relaxing in their personal pastoral paradise amid a plague hits too close to home ...

Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron featured prominently in my History of English Literature course. The 14 th century classic was considered inspiration for the various greats of English writing ...

Netflix's The Decameron is only loosely based on Boccaccio's original work. While the book primarily consists of short stories, the series deviates from this structure.

Is ‘The Decameron’ based on a true story? No, like its source material, "The Decameron" is fictional. “The Decameron” is a 14th-century short story collection framed as stories within a story.