Giovanni Bocaccio (1313-1375) was one of the most important writers of the renaissance along with Dante Alighieri y Petrarca. His principal work “the Decameron” was written during the outbreak on bubonic pestis, in 1348 in Florence, Italy; which is considered the cradle of the Renaissance.
The correct answer is then C) The widespread death and suffering sowed religious doubts and undermined religious authority. This event, (the sickness, the necessity of new responses, the disillusionment of the population, particularly the educated ones, rested power to the clergy, the Catholic church and impulse the opening to new forms of thinking, art and literature expression, that revolution the knowledge of the time.
Answer A, could also be true in part, as well as C, but of this Bocaccio is nor direct evidence of it. B is incorrect because the dynasties of the time, were replaced by businessmen, merchants and the distribution of power among the monarchies of the time was reorganized.
