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…"
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According to Boccaccio, what did some people believe to be the cause of the plague?

Havoc
Sins
Climate change
Corruption

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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…"
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According to Boccaccio, what did some people believe to be the cause of the plague?

Havoc
 Sins
 Climate change
 Corruption

Nevey · Answer

@Kamauri @BenLindquist @bonez @AP

BenLindquist · Answer

sins

AP · Answer

Sins is correct

Nevey · Answer

for some reason i like that word. lol ok Sins it is