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 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 ...

When asked for an elevator pitch to describe her new show "The Decameron," creator and showrunner Kathleen Jordan kept it simple: "Chaos ensues." Starring Zosia Mamet, Tony Hale and more, the show is ...

Carly Lane is an Atlanta-based writer and critic who has been with Collider in some form or fashion since 2021. She considers herself a television nerd, diehard romance/sci-fi/fantasy reader, and ...

THE monograph on Boccaccio by Mr. J.A. Symonds, which has been lately published, sets one a-thinking again about the Decameron. Mr. Symonds is exceedingly enthusiastic in his praises, and hands on the ...

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 ...