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The Decameron (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ m ər ə n /; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn,-ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's ...
Jul 27, 2024 · Netflix's The Decameron turns a real-life historical tragedy into a boisterous comedy. The series from Kathleen Jordan centers on turmoil in Florence in 1348.
The thing that moves it is instinct—natural inclination; no longer God or science, and no longer the unifying love of intellect and act, the great basis of the Middle Ages: it is a real and violent...
Jul 26, 2024 · Netflix's medieval black comedy The Decameron is based on a classic historical novel. The show follows a group of nobles and servants who isolate themselves in the Italian countryside to wait out the Black Death, or plague. Unlike in the plot of the source material, the group indulges in sex and wine until they begin to scramble for survival.
Jul 23, 2024 · Despite its graphic imagery, The Decameron is less a chronicle of the medieval pandemic than a humorous, insightful meditation on human nature under dire circumstances. Set in 1348, the text...
- Meilan Solly
Jul 25, 2024 · 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.
The influential 19th-century critic Francesco De Sanctis regarded the Decameron as a “Human Comedy” in succession to Dante’s Divine Comedy and Boccaccio as the pioneer of a new moral order superseding that of the European Middle Ages.
