About the only good thing to come of the sack of Constantinople would be Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino

So... in a way, this was responsible for one of the fronts of WWI.

Umberto Eco is one of those authors who's work keeps being recommended to me

dkronfeld: Adso has a number of Eco's books and enjoys them. I often find him re-reading sections of Name of the Rose.

TheRedRose: Yes... Well, with a name like Adso who'd have guessed?

dkronfeld: laughs I see you have some familiarity with the work, sir.

TheRedRose: I may seem a bumpkin at times, but I have some familiarity with all kinds of unexpected things