Multiple Choice
Boccaccio's Decameron is historically significant because it:
A) recounts an actual pilgrimage trip from London to Canterbury.
B) is written in the vernacular and portrays men and women as they really were.
C) represents the culmination of the late-medieval Latin prose style.
D) describes with great creativity the Church's position on sin, salvation, and hell.
E) recounts the trip the author took through the inferno, Purgatory, and paradise.
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