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Doge Dandolo’s Negotiations in Hell

Can the Devil trick the mastermind of the 4th Crusade?

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Chris Deliso
Oct 01, 2023
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Doge Enrico Dandolo had been slumbering peacefully for well over two centuries within the fastness of St. Sofia of Constantinople, since his painless repose in the spring 1205 in the Byzantine capital he’d plotted to conquer. However, for the scheming, blind elder of the Fourth Crusade, continuing the conquest to Bulgaria had proven disastrous, with man…

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