The Crusade to Zara

Enrico Dandolo was in just as tighter position as the Latins were he was surely being blamed for bankrupting the republic. So if the Byzantines could be persuaded to pay off the crusader's debt, it was an option he had to strongly consider. In keeping with the theme of this crusade it was agreed that all of this must be kept quiet. We'll just tell the assembled pilgrims that were off to Jerusalem what they don't know won't hurt them. It would have been easy for him to condemn the whole enterprise and to reveal to the masked pilgrims that the pontiff had forbidden them from going to Zara. But Capuano knew that innocent desperately wanted