Who Created The Decameron Web?
The Decameron Web began as the WWW “translation” of a Storyspace document which was created by a group of graduate and undergraduate students in Italian Studies at Brown University during the academic year 1994-1995, under the direction of Prof. Massimo Riva (Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Brown U). Since 1995, the project has been run by a two-editor team: Prof. Riva and Prof. Michael Papio (Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst). In 1998, the Advisory and Editorial Boards were established to guide the further growth of the Decameron Web. In the late spring of 1999, the project was awarded a two-year grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was at this time that we gained a new Project Director, Michael Hemment (Harvard and Brown), who managed the daily operations of the Web in close collaboration with Prof. Riva and Prof. Papio. In 2001 Cristiana Fordyce (now Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at the College of
