Italian Studies

A distinguished Boccaccio scholar and past president of the American Boccaccio Association, while at Brown, Michael Papio contributed to the creation of the Decameron Web as co-editor with M. Riva, while working on his dissertation on late-medieval novella, written under the direction of Anthony Oldcorn and later published as a monograph with the title Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's Novellino, Peter Lang, 2000). He was a founding member of the Brown-University of Bologna Pico della Mirandola Project and later co-edited with F. Borghesi and M. Riva the English edition of Pico's Oration on Human Dignity (Cambridge 2012). He was an inaugural member and contributor of the Virtual Humanities Lab (2004-2006).