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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio It's a tale of wine-soaked chaos amid bubonic plague. "Decameron" is Greek for "10 days." It ...