The original Decameron Web (1995–2010) is preserved in its entirety and remains freely accessible. Nothing has been removed: all essays, teaching materials, translations, and contextual resources contributed over fifteen years of collaborative work can still be consulted there.
At the core of the original project was a TEI-compliant XML encoding of the Decameron — the Italian text in Vittore Branca’s Einaudi edition (1992) alongside J. M. Rigg’s public-domain English translation (1903) — developed with Brown’s Scholarly Technology Group and supported by two major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1999–2001). This encoding is the foundation on which the Decameron Web 2.0 is built.
The archive also preserves documents of the project’s community life, including the newsletter archive (1997–2000) and the pages of the Boccaccio AfterLife Award.