To what world historical event does Boccaccio allude in the following line from his Decameron: “Gathering in those houses where no one had been ill and living was more comfortable, they shut themselves in.”

a. the Black Death
b. the Hundred Years War
c. the Great Schism
d. the fall of Rome

Answer: a

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