Watch: Italian nobles celebrate during the plague in the “Decameron”

July 10, 2024

The Decameron, a black soap opera set in 1348 during the bubonic plague, is coming to Netflix. Photo courtesy of Netflix
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Zosia Mamet arrives on the red carpet for the 2018 Glamour Women of the Year Awards at Spring Street Studios in New York City on November 12, 2018. Photo by Jason Szenes/UPI
Tony Hale attends the 2020 Academy Awards. File photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

July 10 (UPI) – Netflix gives insight into the new series The Decameron.

The streaming service released a trailer for the show starring Zosia Mamet (Girl), Tony Hale (Veep) and Tanya Reynolds (Sex education classes).

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The Decameron is based on the short story collection by the 14th century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio.

The Netflix adaptation is a black soap opera that follows a group of Italian nobles and their servants as they try to survive the Black Death, the bubonic plague, in 1348.

The trailer shows the nobles taking refuge in a villa outside Florence, where they eat, drink and socialize while the pandemic rages outside their walls.

Also starring Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Douggie McMeekin and Jessica Plummer.

Netflix previously released a teaser and first photos for the series.

The Decameron comes from creator and showrunner Kathleen Jordan. The series premieres on July 25th.