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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.
A hilarious cast of characters populate this irreverent take on Boccaccio. But what is 'Decameron' without its stories? Netflix's Audacious Riff on 'The Decameron' Is Tons of Fun
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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 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 (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights. Each film was an adaptation of a different piece of classical ...
So when Chada-Patel first heard of The Decameron, the raunchy new Netflix show (streaming now) loosely based on Giovanni Boccacccio's 1353 short story collection of the same name, he was ...
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.