Which answer matches this clue: the 14th-century collection of 100 tales told by ten young people fleeing plague-stricken Florence?

• A The Canterbury Tales
• B One Thousand and One Nights
• C Grimms' Fairy Tales
• D The Decameron ✓

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, completed around 1353, established the Italian prose tradition and influenced Chaucer and Shakespeare.