Graduate Prize

2024
Caterina Nicodemo, University of Chicago
Violenza e civiltà nel Ninfale fiesolano

2021
Alexander Brock, Princeton University
When Il Grasso Becomes Calandrino: La Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo and the Productive Failure of Literary Imitation

2020
Nora Siena, Cornell University
The Invisibility of Rape in Boccaccio's Decameron

2019
Megan Tomlinson, UCLA
Travel as Transgression: The Mobility of Women in Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris and the Decameron

2019
Alyssa Granacki, Duke University
Domesticating Philosophy: Dante's Women in Boccaccio

2016
Chiara Girardi, Johns Hopkins University
European Reactions to the Wealth and Beauty of Saracen Women in Decameron II.7 and IV.4

2015
Grace Delmolino, Columbia University
Francesca and Filippa: Boccaccio's Canon-Legal Theory of Consent in Esposizioni 5 and Decameron 6.7

2014
Johnny Bertolio, University of Toronto
Il "vin vermiglio" di Filippo Argenti (Decameron IX 8)

Undergraduate Prize

2024
Susi Feng, University of North Carolina
Fraud as Self-Defense Justifying the Means Using the Ends in 3.2

2023
Grace Aiono, Cornell University
How Talano Tricks his Wife The Violence of Rhetoric in Decameron 9.7

 2021
Carlisle DiValentin, Emory University
"When the pawn hits the King a preemptive strike against a tyrannical ruler and instructions on how to outlive one"

Creative Prize

2024
Skye Roberts, Connecticut College
"Lisabetta's Tears" [graphic novella]

2023
Profs. Alberto Iozzia and Chiara Montera, with students Allie DeRubeis, Chris Matthews, Brianna McMahon, Dallas Mercurio, Rafael Romero Lauro, Daniel Turillo, University of Pittsburgh
"Aspettando Chichibio [Waiting for Chichibio]." A Bilingual Play

2020
RK Fauth, Georgetown University
The Unprecedented Project (viral blackout poetry)

2019
Lorenzo Bacchini, Johns Hopkins University
Decameron VIII.3. Calandrino and the Heliotrope (short video)