...siveness of an inexperienced, imbecile, and dissolute ruler, even Red-Beard, the wise and powerful Frederic the First, acquiesced in the necessity of giving up his long and fruitless struggle; and at Venice , in the maturity of his years, surrendered to the pope. This victory over the mightiest of the Roman emperors of the German nation could not have been won by the Roman pontiffs, unless right had ...