"Assume, O men of the German lands, that ancient spirit of yours with which you so often confounded and terrified the Romans and turn your eyes to the frontiers o Germany; collect her torn and broken territories. Let us be ashamed, ashamed I say, to have placed upon our nation the yoke of slavery.... O free and powerful people, o noble and valiant race.... To such an extent are we corrupted by Italian sensuality and by fierce cruelty in extracting filthy profit that it would have been far more holy and reverent for us to practice that rude and rustic lie of old, living within the bounds of self-control, than to have imported the paraphernalia of sensuality and greed which are never sated, and to have adopted foreign customs." -Conrad Celtis, oration delivered at the University of Ingolstadt, 1492
Celtis’ discussion of Italian influence in the German lands is most similar to which of the following?
(A) Machiavelli’s criticism of Italian political systems in The Prince
(B) Galileo’s science-based inquiries that threatened the authority of Catholic world views
(C) Erasmus’ arguments in favor of religious toleration and criticizing traditional superstitions
(D) Martin Luther’s criticisms of the Catholic Church in his Ninety-five Theses