The Decameron: Medieval lockdown project or ‘wine-soaked sex romp’?

For anyone versed in medieval European history, the new Netflix adaptation of a 700-year-old story about a group of noble youths seems a timely endeavour.

Florentine poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) composed the 100 short stories collectively known as The Decameron  (lI decamerone) in a lull of the plague that came to be known as the Black Death, which arrived in Italy on trade ships from the East in late 1347.

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