The student wants to cite a historian to explain why Digby wrote De A… | Verbal SAT Question

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

Swimming was celebrated in ancient Rome but fell out of favor throughout Europe’s Dark Ages.
English theologian Everard Digby wrote the first modern swimming manual, De Arte Natandi, in 1587.
Digby’s manual described and illustrated a variety of aquatic stunts that he had developed (e.g., “ringing the bells,” “the leap of the goat”).
Historian Vicki Valosik claims, “In providing instructions for these aquatic ‘refinements,’ Digby hoped to revive swimming—a once revered skill that had all but died out during Europe’s Dark Ages—and elevate it from a crude, mechanical function of the hands and feet to an artful science.”

The student wants to cite a historian to explain why Digby wrote De Arte Natandi. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

In De Arte Natandi, Digby wrote that he “hoped to...elevate [swimming] from a crude, mechanical function of the hands and feet” by “providing instructions for...aquatic ‘refinements.’”

According to Valosik, Digby wrote De Arte Natandi to describe and illustrate “once revered” aquatic stunts from ancient Rome, such as “ringing the bells” and “the leap of the goat.”

Valosik claims that, by writing De Arte Natandi, “Digby hoped to revive swimming...and elevate it from a crude, mechanical function...to an artful science.”

As Valosik claims, with De Arte Natandi, Digby developed the first modern swimming manual in order to illustrate why “a once revered skill...had all but died out during Europe’s Dark Ages.”