Giovanni Boccaccio, “Decameron”, Codex parigino, c. 1350-1375, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Département des manuscrits, Italy 482, fol. 6r ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 Cristofori, ...
Netflix's new period drama, The Decameron, arrived on Thursday and while many viewers have praised the fun comedy, which is described as "like Love Island but back in the day", others took issue with ...
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 ...
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