History Literature / CaptainCorellisMandolin

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: One chapter features an appearance by UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.

* CavalryBetrayal: The Italian government ends up defecting to the Allied cause, causing their German allies to retaliate by going after Italian troops and subsequently massacring them.

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* BadassGrandpa: Velisarios. At his last appearance, he's 87 years old and still has strength men a quarter of his age could only dream of.

* BuryYourGays: Subverted; the gay character Carlo survives a horrific campaign in Albania while the heterosexual man whom Carlo secretly loves dies in his arms. [[spoiler:Carlo does die late in the book, but it's hard to feel he's been singled out because the occasion is a massacre in which every single one of the other Italian soldiers except Corelli also dies.]]

''Captain Corelli's Mandolin'' is a novel by Creator/LouisDeBernieres, set on the Greek island of Cephalonia. The occupation of the island by Italian troops during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII forms a major part of the plot; the title character, Antonio Corelli, is an officer in the occupying forces.

Adapted into a 2001 film starring Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Creator/JohnHurt and Creator/ChristianBale.

!!This novel provides examples of:

Adapted into a 2001 film starring Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Creator/JohnHurt and Creator/Christian Bale.

Adapted into a 2001 film starring Creator/NicolasCage.

%%* HeroicSacrifice: Carlo.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Bunny Warren arrives in Cephalonia speaking only Ancient Greek, which is rendered in the novel as (unusually scrupulous) Chaucerian Middle English. As the novel proceeds, Bunny's speech becomes gradually more modern.

* LightAndSofter: The ending is less bitter, more sweet. [[spoiler:Corelli and Pelagia are reunited soon after the war ends, instead of years later.]]

* RevisedEnding: Less bitter, more sweet. [[spoiler:Corelli and Pelagia are reunited soon after the war ends, instead of years later.]]

%%* BittersweetEnding
%%* BuryYourGays: Both subverted and played straight.

%%* RevisedEnding: Less bitter, more sweet.

* BittersweetEnding
* BuryYourGays: Both subverted and played straight.

* HappilyAdopted: Antonia
* HeroicSacrifice: Carlo.

* JustAStupidAccent: Nicolas Cage as Corelli.
* RevisedEnding: Less bitter, more sweet.

''Captain Corelli's Mandolin'' is a novel by Louis de Bernieres, set on the Greek island of Cephalonia. The occupation of the island by Italian troops during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII forms a major part of the plot; the title character, Antonio Corelli, is an officer in the occupying forces.

A novel by Louis de Bernieres, with the main story set on Cephallonia before, during and some considerable time after WorldWarTwo. Adapted into a 2001 film starring Creator/NicolasCage.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* RevisedEnding: In the movie version.
* {{Sabotutor}}: Corelli wants to get on with the people whose village his men are occupying, so he asks an Italian-speaking local to teach him how to greet the villagers in their own language. The "greeting" he gets taught is thoroughly impolite, and causes him to become even less popular.
* TrollingTranslator: Captain Corelli is one of a group of Italian soldiers occupying a Greek village. At one point, wanting to make a good impression on the villagers, he asks a villager who speaks Italian to teach him a greeting in Greek. The villager instead teaches him a spectactular insult, which he goes around cheerfully giving to everyone until he figures out something's gone wrong.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Bunny Warren arrives in Cephalonia speaking only Ancient Greek, which is rendered in the novel as (unusually scrupulous) Chaucerian Middle English. As the novel proceeds, Bunny's speech becomes gradually more modern.

A novel by Louis de Bernieres, with the main story set on Cephallonia before, during and some considerable time after WorldWarTwo.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Bunny Warren's attempts at speaking Greek, transliterated into English, at first.

* Sabotutor: Corelli wants to get on with the people whose village his men are occupying, so he asks an Italian-speaking local to teach him how to greet the villagers in their own language. The "greeting" he gets taught is thoroughly impolite, and causes him to become even less popular.

* HeroicSacrifice: Carlo.