The Real Story Behind Netflix's 'The Decameron'

Meilan Solly Associate Editor, History When the 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio published The Decameron, a collection of short stories about an outbreak of bubonic plague in Florence, Italy, he spared no detail in his description of the devastating disease. “In men and women alike there appeared, at the beginning of the malady, certain swellings, either on the groin or under the armpits, whereof some…