Which answer matches this clue: the 14th-century author of the Decameron, a collection of 100 tales told by Florentines fleeing the plague?

• A Francesco Petrarca
• B Giovanni Boccaccio ✓
• C Ludovico Ariosto
• D Torquato Tasso

Boccaccio's Decameron, written shortly after the Black Death of 1348, influenced Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the development of European prose fiction.