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 ...

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 ...

The deadly plague arrived in the noble city of Florence, Italy. It had begun in the East, where it deprived countless beings of their lives before it headed for the West, spreading ever greater misery ...

UPON the outskirts of the city of Naples lies the tomb of Virgil. The body of the great poet was laid there nineteen years before the beginning of the Christian Era, and during all the tumultuous ...

Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of Italian nobles and servants who flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death Based on ...

This is it, the storybook which, one is tempted to say, began the modern European narrative tradition. It may seem a bit rich to call something over six and a half centuries old "modern", but look at ...

Love triumphs over death in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s new version of Boccaccio’s "Decameron" By THR Staff Wondrous Boccaccio Still - H 2015 Boccaccio’s hundred-tale medieval novel was probably the ...

It’s curious how veteran filmmakers like the Taviani brothers could have taken “The Decameron,” one of the greatest books about storytelling, and turned out a narrative as blandly conveyed as ...