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Read the passage.

I say, then, that the years [of the era] . . . had attained to the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the notable city of Florence . . . there came the death-dealing pestilence, which . . . had some years before appeared in the parts of the East and . . . had now unhappily spread towards the West.


–Decameron,

Giovanni Boccaccio


Which is the best example of a paraphrase of this passage?


In 1348, a deadly plague arrived in Florence from the East.

Over one thousand people in the city of Florence died from a plague.

Many people in the East had been lost to the plague.

The plague spread rapidly from one place to another.