University of Rhode Island Italian language students recently won an award in an international competition in which participants adapted stories from Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece into diverse media, from embroidered pieces to theatrical presentations to a Twitter feed in a rhyming verse form called terza rim a. To view these students click here: http://uri.meritpages.com/achievements/URI-Italian-language-students-win-award-in-international-contest-adapting-work-of-medieval-writer/19172