Editing Captain Corelli's Mandolin (section)

==Real story and precedents==
Bernières has denied that the character of Corelli is based on {{ill|Amos Pampaloni|it}} who was then an Italian artillery captain in Cephalonia, despite the many similarities in their stories. Pampaloni survived execution, joined the [[Greek People's Liberation Army]], the Partisans in the [[Greek Civil War|Greek civil war]], and fought with them in [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]] for fourteen months. Pampaloni was interviewed by ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper in 2000<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jul/29/fiction.features1 Greek myth (part two)]</ref> and expressed the view that the novel misrepresented the Greek partisan movement.

The novel also shows some similarities to ''Bandiera bianca a Cefalonia'', a novel by {{ill|Marcello Venturi|it}} published in 1963, translated in English as ''The White Flag'' (1969).