The Emperor Trajan was persuaded to postpone affairs of state, & render justice to a widow for her dead child. The story is taken from Dante's ' Purgatorio' X:76 ff. This panel & ' Trajan & the Widow I' are presumably from a cassone, & are probably of the late 15th century. For other Veronese paintings of this type also with subjects from Roman history see Domenico Morone.