The first book I picked up off this list was chosen solely due to its availability (free of cost) on the Kindle store: John Payne’s translation of Giovanni Boccacio’s “The Decameron.” ...

The Decameron, which is very loosely based on the 14th-century collection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio, is one of Netflix’s most underrated comedy series streaming right now.

Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Misia and Zosia Mamet as Pampinea in "The Decameron." (Courtesy of Giulia Parmigiani/Netflix) Here & Now's Scott Tong talks with Kathleen Jordan, creator and executive ...

No matter how bad your summer vacations have been, they could in no way compare to the sheer horror of the villa getaway in “The Decameron,” one that is as filled with black comedy as it is ...

to take an archery lesson inspired by his new medieval-times Netflix limited series, The Decameron. Very loosely based on the seminal 14th-century book, the show follows a group of nobles and ...

The influential thinker and writer Douglas Rushkoff was once summoned to an audience with five Silicon Valley billionaires. As he recounts in Survival of the Richest, their concern was impending ...

By Nicole Fell Netflix‘s latest dark comedy The Decameron answers the question: How would a group of wealthy people, isolated from the rest of the world due to a pandemic, act? If that premise ...

It’s Italy in the year 1348. The bubonic plague is sweeping Europe. And in “The Decameron,” Kathleen Jordan’s black death black comedy, Misia (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), a doting lady’s ...

However, there’s now a new heartthrob in town, and he is found in Netflix’s newest comedy The Decameron. This series is full of wild adventures and exciting antics in 13th century Italy as ...

Unsurprisingly, we're obsessed with The Decameron. The dark comedy, which stars Cosmopolitan cover star Saorise-Monica Jackson, is set in 1348 during the black death, when a group of nobles flee ...