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In Umberto Eco's "Baudolino" there's another darkly humorous account of a murdered Byzantine emperor. In 1185, an adviser to emperor Andronicus convinces him to
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In Umberto Eco's "Baudolino" there's another darkly humorous account of a murdered Byzantine emperor. In 1185, an adviser to emperor Andronicus convinces him to kill Isaac Angelus ostensibly because of disloyalty but in actuality to satisfy some personal grudge, but Isaac ends up fighting back, becoming the new emperor and letting a mob brutally kill Andronicus. It's unclear whether Isaac even planned to become the emperor in the first place.