Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Capitaine Corelli is a novel by Louis de Bernières. It is a love story about an Italian captain and the daughter of the local physician on the island Keffalinia. It is set against the background of the Italian/German occupation of the island during World War II. The novel was the basis for the 2001 movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.