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A tale from The Decameron, by John William Waterhouse. This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.. Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story.
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 Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by ...
The Decameron is an American medieval black comedy television miniseries created by Kathleen Jordan. It was inspired by the 14th century Italian short-story collection The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It was released on Netflix on July 25, 2024 to generally favorable reviews.
The Decameron, Netflix’s new show about a group of 14th century Italians—both nobles and working class folk—who are hunkered down together at the fancy countryside Villa Santa to wait out ...
Summary of Decameron tales; V. Virgin Territory; W. Wondrous Boccaccio This page was last edited on 18 August 2022, at 17:29 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Before there were single-location concept shows or Zoom table reads, there was the original pandemic-adjacent entertainment: Bocaccio’s “The Decameron,” the 14th-century anthology framed ...
The streamer has given an eight-episode series order to The Decameron, from Kathleen Jordan, creator of Netflix’s […] ‘The Decameron’: Netflix Orders 14th Century Soapy Drama From Kathleen ...
Nastagio degli Onesti is the protagonist in one of the one hundred short stories contained in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The eighth story of the fifth day, it tells of the unrequited love of the nobleman Nastagio for a girl who will eventually be induced to accept Nastagio's affection by the appearance of a rejected lover and her beloved.