It's a tale of wine-soaked chaos amid bubonic plague. Netflix's The Decameron turns a real-life historical tragedy into a boisterous comedy. The series from Kathleen Jordan centers on turmoil in ...

The Netflix dark comedy is loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's short story collection set during the bubonic plague pandemic. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor The dark comedy, which released on the ...

The cast of The Decameron (Leila Farzad, Tanya Reynolds, Tony Hale, Amar Chadha-Patel, and Douggie McMeekin) Image via Netflix Hold onto your hearts and holy relics, people, because history is about ...

A feast of storytelling: 'The Banquet in the Pinewoods' (1483) by Sandro Botticelli (and workshop), depicting The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth tale of the fifth day in The Decameron ...

In lockdown the world can become almost a single room. Our minds turn inward, and when so much of what we listen to, watch or read is about symptoms and statistics and far off vaccines, it’s hardly ...

Netflix’s The Decameron follows a Lord Of The Flies-esque fight for survival in a lavish Italian villa against the backdrop of the Black Death. Yep, you read that right. It’s not every day that you ...

THE love which Dante so magisterially celebrated and to which Boccaccio was paying his faltering tribute in the Ameto was the mother, not of religion, but of culture. Christianity had turned the ...