Lucyl is a doctoral candidate researching with the Living with Death: Learning from Covid project, and a host of the Covid book podcast, Pandemic Pages. Her research focuses on new language and literature uses during the pandemic, aiming to understand how they contribute to healing and coping with loss, and delving into the ways writers have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak through fiction and non-fiction.
The Decameron: Netflix’s raunchy, raucous re-imagining of a medieval plague masterpiece
Jul 27, 2024 12:55 pm UTC| Entertainment
Giovanni Boccaccios The Decameron (1353) is a classic plague book. It follows ten noble people quarantining together in a beautiful villa in the Italian countryside. They have fled Florence where in 1348, when the story is...