This picture is from Italian history in the time of Crusades. The venerable Venetian duke or doge, Enrico Dandolo, nearly 90 years old when he died in 1192, led an Italian fleet against young emperor rode on horseback to the shore and ridiculed his aged antagonist, asking how such a dotard could hope to prevail against youth and fire. Dandolo, standing. high above his rival on the prow of his flagship, received the taunts in silence, and found his revenge in the capture of Constantinople.

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