Use the following excerpt from Boccaccio's The Decameron to answer the following question:
In the year of our Lord 1348, there happened at Florence, the finest city in all Italy a most terrible plague; which, whether owing to the influence of the planets, or that it was sent from God as a just punishment for our sins, had broken out some years before in the Levant (Middle East) and, after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc all the way, had now reached the west
[The plague] occasioned various fears and devices amongst those who survived, all tending to the same uncharitable and cruel end; which was, to avoid the sick and everything that had been near them, expecting by that means to save themselves. Some [held] it best to live temperately and to avoid excesses of all kindsandthey shut themselves up from the rest of the worldOthers maintained free living to be a better preservative and would balk no passion or appetite they wished to gratify, drinking and reveling incessantly from tavern to tavernyet strenuously avoiding, with all this brutal indulgence, to come near the infected.- Public Domain
How does Boccaccio let you know that he recognized that the plague spread widely from one location to another? (5 points)
AHe states that it was caused by rats.
BHe states that it caused reckless behavior.
CHe states that it spread from the Middle East.
DHe states that people did not avoid the sick.
- Use the following excerpt from Boccaccio's The Decameron to answer the following question:
In the year of our Lord 1348, there happened at Florence, the finest city in all Italy a most terrible plague; which, whether owing to the influence of the planets, or that it was sent from God as a just punishment for our sins, had broken out some years before in the Levant (Middle East) and, after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc all the way, had now reached the west…
[The plague] occasioned various fears and devices amongst those who survived, all tending to the same uncharitable and cruel end; which was, to avoid the sick and everything that had been near them, expecting by that means to save themselves. Some [held] it best to live temperately and to avoid excesses of all kinds…and…they shut themselves up from the rest of the world…Others maintained free living to be a better preservative and would balk no passion or appetite they wished to gratify, drinking and reveling incessantly from tavern to tavern…yet strenuously avoiding, with all this brutal indulgence, to come near the infected.- Public Domain
Based on the passage, how would Boccaccio likely feel about the actions of the flagellants, who warned Christians to repent? (5 points)
AHe would find their actions sinful because they accused God.
BHe would find their actions appropriate because the Church was corrupt.
CHe would find their actions appropriate because he believed human sin may have caused the plague.
DHe would find their actions inappropriate because he was certain the planets caused the plague.
In the year of our Lord 1348, there happened at Florence, the finest city in all Italy a most terrible plague; which, whether owing to the influence of the planets, or that it was sent from God as a just punishment for our sins, had broken out some years before in the Levant (Middle East) and, after passing from place to place, and making incredible havoc all the way, had now reached the west
[The plague] occasioned various fears and devices amongst those who survived, all tending to the same uncharitable and cruel end; which was, to avoid the sick and everything that had been near them, expecting by that means to save themselves. Some [held] it best to live temperately and to avoid excesses of all kindsandthey shut themselves up from the rest of the worldOthers maintained free living to be a better preservative and would balk no passion or appetite they wished to gratify, drinking and reveling incessantly from tavern to tavernyet strenuously avoiding, with all this brutal indulgence, to come near the infected.- Public Domain
How does Boccaccio let you know that he recognized that the plague spread widely from one location to another? (5 points)
[The plague] occasioned various fears and devices amongst those who survived, all tending to the same uncharitable and cruel end; which was, to avoid the sick and everything that had been near them, expecting by that means to save themselves. Some [held] it best to live temperately and to avoid excesses of all kinds…and…they shut themselves up from the rest of the world…Others maintained free living to be a better preservative and would balk no passion or appetite they wished to gratify, drinking and reveling incessantly from tavern to tavern…yet strenuously avoiding, with all this brutal indulgence, to come near the infected.- Public Domain
Based on the passage, how would Boccaccio likely feel about the actions of the flagellants, who warned Christians to repent? (5 points)
