On May 26, 2020, Morris Karp and Francesca Zambon interviewed Brown University faculty members Ronald Martinez and Massimo Riva on the renewed interest in Boccaccio’s Decameron in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the historical parallels between the 14th century and the present time, the experience of isolation and love and what it reveals about social privileges and inequities, and the relation between the Decameron’s framing story and the collected novellas. Watch short excerpts and the full interview below!