sentences:  "Gesta Tancredi" provides an unflattering view of contemporaneous Byzantium, in particularly emperor Alexios I. 
  
  Ralph of Caen was well educated in the Latin classics.Besides Virgil, whose work he knew well, he was acquainted with Ovid, who did not become popular until the twelfth-century Renaissance, and even Horace, who never developed much medieval reputation.More directly, in view of his project, he had read Roman historians