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?