Decameron by Boccaccio

To celebrate the Week of the Italian Language in the world, we have staged a theatre show inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, the father of Italian prose literature.
The modern reinterpretation of Boccaccio’s masterpiece – carried out by Marco Luly, Sabrina Candeloro Zuber and Robert Jenkins – has allowed us not only to promote the knowledge of this beautiful work, but also to explain its influence on some “giants” of European literature, such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. Being the first novel written in the new vernacular language, the “Decameron” was also an opportunity for us to illustrate the history of the evolution of our language, from Latin to contemporary Italian.