Tales from the Decameron

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective: these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio’s Decameron—an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron—in a brilliant, playful new translation.

“The Decameron reads in some ways as a guide to social distancing and self-isolation.” —The New York Times

In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other'stories—one hundred stories of...