Multiple choice What Renaissance text offers this passage: “It is much safer to be feared than loved”? Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince Dante’s Inferno Petrarch’s love sonnets to Laura Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself B Correct answer Explanation The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is a political treatise that famously argues it is safer for a ruler to be feared than loved.