The Decameron: Here's all about the real-life events that inspired Netflix¡¯s upcoming series
The Decameron is all set to debut on Netflix on July 25th. The series is being talked about on the internet because of the real-life events that inspired it. The historic drama is basically inspired by Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio's book. In The Decameron book, short stories about the outbreak of bubonic plague in Italy's Florence were discussed, and the poet left no stone unturned from the historic event. The series, just like the book, is said to cover everything about the devastating disease.?
All about the book that inspired Netflix¡¯s upcoming series
The Decameron discusses the pandemic in history and is more of a hilarious, insightful meditation on human nature in difficult times.
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Set in 1348, the story of the series revolves around people fleeing to the countryside to avoid the Black Death. The characters are shown entertaining themselves by telling each other stories, they are shown sharing anecdotes over a period of time.
The characters in the series are shown to have used to elect king and queen for a day and kept responsible for choosing a topic for the day's stories, such as love stories, acts of generosity, and more.
These scenes are based on genuine stories about real-life historical figures that Boccaccio's contemporaries would have been familiar with.
The upcoming Netflix series is set with the facts and humour of its original source material.?
All about The Decameron book
Boccaccio was the illegitimate son of a wealthy Italian merchant and an unknown woman who was born in 1313. The poet grew up in Florence, studied canon law, and practiced banking. Later, Boccaccio shifted his focus to writing. Boccaccio wrote about his observations.
The epidemic, as discussed in his book The Dacameron, arrived on the Italian Peninsula in 1347. It travelled across the peninsula and hit Florence in 1348. Scholars disagree on whether Boccaccio was in the city at the time, but he observed the aftermath of the sickness that killed his father and stepmother, as well as thousands others.
