Emperor whose name is Italian for "black” (4)

I believe the answer is:

nero

(Other definitions for nero that I've seen before include "Emperor who played the fiddle" , "Roman emperor, d. AD68" , "Barbarous Roman emperor" , "Roman emperor who fiddled while Rome burned" , "Matricidal emperor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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