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Vendetta!	comment	Vendetta!, or The Story Of One Forgotten is the second novel by Marie Corelli. It was published in August of 1886 or later that year, coming hot on the heels of A Romance of Two Worlds. Corelli can't be denied her writing discipline, but creatively speaking it's pertinent to note that Vendetta! is very similar to The Count of Monte Cristo.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Count Fabio Romani is hastily placed in the family tomb when it is thought he has died from cholera. He isn't dead, however, and has a rather unpleasant awakening amidst corpses. There's also a couple of graverobbers active, whose tunnel Fabio uses to escape through. Outside, he realizes that the whole ordeal has drastically changed his appearance, notably giving him grey hair. Still, he looks forward to returning to his family, but when he enters the garden of his home he discovers that his wife and best friend have been in an affair for some time and consider his death convenient more than tragic. From that moment on, Fabio only wants revenge and his new appearance as well as a treasure he finds go a long way realizing that.The only legacy the novel has in the West is its adaptation into a movie, Vendetta, in 1914 by Kleine-Eclipse. It fared better in Japan. In 1893, Kuroiwa Shūroku translated the novel for publication in Yorozu Chōhō under the name Hakuhatsuki (白髪鬼, White-Haired Demon). It enjoyed decent popularity and notably was read by Edogawa Ranpo. In 1931, he adapted Kuroiwa's version for Fuji. With permission of Kuroiwa's family, the title Hakuhatsuki was maintained. Among the changes Ranpo made are a Setting Update from Italy to Japan and establishing that the protagonist truly is undead rather than mistakenly declared dead. Today, the Hakuhatsuki is one of Japan's minorly adapted literary monsters.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Vendetta! / int_165308f6	type	The Commandments
Vendetta! / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: In Chapter IX, a sarcastic suggestion is given for an eleventh Commandment: "Thou shall not be found out!"
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Vendetta! / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
Vendetta! / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: In Chapter II, a group of eight young men and eight women of remarkable beauty hold a party in a private room of a reputable cafe in response to the terror of the cholera pandemic. That very night, every single one of them dies of the disease.
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Vendetta! / int_188802c0	type	Spurned into Suicide
Vendetta! / int_188802c0	comment	Spurned into Suicide: The coral-fisher whose clothes Fabio buys committed suicide after the woman he loved told him she had enough of him. He'd returned from a long voyage with many gifts in hopes of her making good on her promise to marry him. Instead, she told him she was ending it, with the implication she had her eyes on another man, and he simply stepped off the quay and let the waves close above him.
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Vendetta! / int_20d2c649	type	Spiteful Suicide
Vendetta! / int_20d2c649	comment	Spiteful Suicide: Teresa kills herself when the gendarmes come to arrest Carmelo. On one hand, she knows this is it for him and doesn't want to live without Carmelo. On the other, the person that sold Carmelo out isn't of the law or a victim of Carmelo, but a man, Luigi Biscardi, who wanted her for himself. As much as Carmelo didn't want her to die, some satisfaction is gotten when he gets to inform Luigi of her last stand.
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Vendetta! / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Vendetta! / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: In the aftermath of his presumptuous burial, Fabio walks around with a levitous outlook on death and cholera. This leads to several encounters that skirt the line between funny and awful. For instance, Chapter VII opens when he passes by a house where the beccamorti with bone-cracking violence stuff a deceased into a coffin that's too small. Fabio can't help but remark that they "had better make sure he is quite dead." One beccamorto laughs and answers that if he weren't, he'd twist his neck for him. He then toys a little with the corpse's head, which is too much for Fabio.
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Vendetta! / int_24e5adb9	type	Beast and Beauty
Vendetta! / int_24e5adb9	comment	Beast and Beauty: Carmelo Neri is big, rough, hairy, and black like a wolf. Teresa is compared to a "little cloud in the sky at night, wandering past the moon all flecked with pale gold". The two of them are faithful lovers and Teresa is the only soft spot Carmelo has.
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Vendetta! / int_5012cb5c	comment	Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Fabio fears that his eyes will give away his true identity to people who knew him. Therefore, he comes up with the tale that Cesare has weak sight that cannot stand the heat and brilliancy of the Mediterranean sun and therefore he has to wear smoke-colored glasses.
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Vendetta! / int_529362a3	type	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping
Vendetta! / int_529362a3	comment	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: Pietro, the innkeeper whose care Fabio is left in in Chapter II, polishes his glasses and bottles while the threat of Fabio having cholera keeps the customers away. He's still polishing glasses when Fabio returns a day later.
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Vendetta! / int_59d9cfbd	type	Let's Duet
Vendetta! / int_59d9cfbd	comment	Let's Duet: For as long as Guido and Nina need to keep their affair a secret from Fabio, they sing together. Under the guise of mere entertainment, Nina sings for the two men and Guido usually joins her. Fabio notes how "[Guido's] full barytone chiming in with [Nina's] delicate and clear soprano [is] as [delicious] as the fall of a fountain with the trill of a bird."
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Vendetta! / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Vendetta! / int_77494699	comment	Iaijutsu Practitioner: The storekeeper claims to have been a swordsman who could perform a single stroke kill with ease. He boasts that with a good sword, he could "cut asunder a seven-times-folded piece of silk at one blow without fraying out a thread."
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Vendetta! / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Vendetta! / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Nina is the daughter of a ruined Florentine noble, which is why her father readily accepts the marriage proposal of the wealthy Fabio Romani.
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Vendetta! / int_864009e9	type	Pirate Booty
Vendetta! / int_864009e9	comment	Pirate Booty: Not the booty of pirates, but of the brigand Carmelo Neri and his gang, who are active in Palermo. Because justice is hot on their trail, by sheer chance they've picked the Romani Vault in Naples as the hiding place for their loot. Coins, bills, jewels, precious metals, precious fabrics, and more are stuffed within a single large coffin marked with a red dagger symbol. Fabio discovers the treasure by chance and recognizes it as more valuable than all his own possessions combined. Because Neri and his men are in hiding, he claims it for himself even before he knows he needs the finances to exact revenge.
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Vendetta! / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Vendetta! / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Psychologically speaking. The storekeeper that murdered his wife argues that she killed him first by cheating on him and that what killed her wasn't him but the devil that arose inside of him. He now needs the devil to keep himself mentally well enough to deal with the guilt-ridden memories.
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Vendetta! / int_93decddf	comment	Ominous Owl: While locked up inside the Romani Vault, Fabio is twice attacked by an owl that has taken up residence there, presumably entering and leaving through the bars of the gate. Once Fabio is attacked while he's walking around, another time when he's collapsed. He initially tells himself that the creature is an innocent companion of the dead, but by the second attack he grabs the bird, rips it free from his flesh, and throws it off of him away into the dark of the vault.
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Vendetta! / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Vendetta! / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: Fabio's fever-induced hallucination in Chapter II is sad but funny. On one hand, he knows perfectly well where he is and who is in his company. On the other, he's hallucinating. So he's simultaneously imaging his wife in his embrace and aware it's actually the innkeeper holding him down. Doesn't stop him either from telling the innkeeper to let him kiss his wife.
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Vendetta! / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Vendetta! / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Probably averted. When the storekeeper discovers his wife in bed with a man from Venice, he holds no ill will towards him. Instead, he subdues him, kills his wife with a knife, and then hands the bloody knife to the Venetian man as something to remember his wife by. It's implied the man didn't take or keep it.
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Vendetta! / int_999b994b	type	Dead to Begin With
Vendetta! / int_999b994b	comment	Dead to Begin With: Played with. Vendetta! opens with the declaration that Fabio Romani is dead, but immediately after clarifies that he's talking about being legally dead. All the paperwork and ceremonies a truly dead man need have been taken care of and no one knows a grave mistake was made. Fabio doesn't care to correct anyone either and has left his life in Naples behind to dwell around in the forests of South America. The rest of the novel recalls the how and why this situation came to be.
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Vendetta! / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Vendetta! / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Fabio advises the reader that if they need to get rid of dead relations with guarantees, cremation is the way to go. From experience, he can tell that intact bodies leave too much room for funny business.
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Vendetta! / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Vendetta! / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Assunta is an old family servant of the Romani household. She held Fabio's mother when she died and these days is the nurse who takes care of the 2-year old Stella.
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Vendetta! / int_ab0a1453	type	Prematurely Grey-Haired
Vendetta! / int_ab0a1453	comment	Prematurely Grey-Haired: Fabio's hair goes from jet-black to snow-white due to the stress of awakening inside a coffin, fighting with an owl, and struggling for an hour in pure darkness surrounded by corpses to find an exit. It is only the color that has changed, as the volume, thickness, and curls are still the same. More changes in appearance affect Fabio, but it's his now stark white hair that everyone comments on and Fabio wears it as a mark of honor.
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Vendetta! / int_b42325cf	type	Matron Chaperone
Vendetta! / int_b42325cf	comment	Matron Chaperone: Invoked in Chapter VIII when Guido refers to Fabio as Nina's duenna rather than her husband.
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Vendetta! / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
Vendetta! / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: When Fabio escapes his coffin in the family vault, he is greeted by the distant sound of the church bells chiming 12 o'clock. He's not certain which 12 o'clock, but reasons that it's midnight. His search for the exit in the pitch-black of the vault takes another hour and when the bells chime 1 o'clock he passes out from exhaustion.
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Vendetta! / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Vendetta! / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: All Fabio wanted at first was to go home. When he discovers his wife's and best friend's affair, he doesn't care about going home anymore and just wants them to suffer.
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Vendetta! / int_d67d184b	type	Murder Makes You Crazy
Vendetta! / int_d67d184b	comment	Murder Makes You Crazy: The storekeeper, as he becomes lost in thought, shares a lot of information about what murdering his wife for her infidelity did to him. Guilt is consuming him and robbing him of his sleep, which in turn leaves him to ruminate on the memories he has of her and in particular the helplessness and terror when he stabbed her to death. The memory pushes him to reject any sense of caution regarding the cholera and while he's not a death seeker, he's looking forward to finally getting to sleep.
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Vendetta! / int_d84a3beb	type	Either/Or Title
Vendetta! / int_d84a3beb	comment	Either/Or Title: The novel was originally published as Vendetta!, or The Story Of One Forgotten. Reprints are prone to omit the "!" and the "or".
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Vendetta! / int_db912a80	type	The Good King
Vendetta! / int_db912a80	comment	The Good King: Half of Chapter VII is an embellished description of Umberto I's visits to cholera-stricken cities such as Naples. The Italian king indeed made these visits in real-life, which at the time was a huge boost to the people's confidence that they'd get through the disease. The same sentiment reigns in Chapter VII.
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Vendetta! / int_dc3df63a	type	Death Notification
Vendetta! / int_dc3df63a	comment	Death Notification: Pietro accidentally notifies Fabio of Cipriano's death. The monk had not let cholera stop him from trying to help people in need and as a result he contracted the disease. He died a few hours after Fabio's perceived death, and Fabio is left feeling empty. He'd looked forward to returning the crucifix of ebony and silver the monk had left in his coffin and thanking him for all his care.
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Vendetta! / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Vendetta! / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Before his supposed death, Fabio enjoyed such wealth that he could spend his time reading, strolling in the garden, yachting, and more such activities that left him in pristine condition. It comes up when he's sailing to Palermo in the guise of a coral-fisher. Captain Andrea Luziani privately calls him out on it, because his hands are too untouched for him to know hard labor.
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Vendetta! / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Vendetta! / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Upon taking a new identity because "Fabio Romani" is dead, Fabio ops for Cesare Oliva. Cesare was a childhood friend he had personally witnessed drown in the waters of the Lido di Venezia.
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Vendetta! / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Vendetta! / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Fabio is twenty years or a little older when he is mistakenly buried. He comes out looking like an elderly man who has been through hard times. With a few days of luxurious selfcare, he recovers to become a handsome man of about fifty-five. Of note is that his premature aging is solely a surface issue. His muscles and physical capacity suffered at no point from the experience.
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Vendetta! / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Vendetta! / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Out on a stroll, Fabio comes to the aid of an 11- to 12-year old fruit-seller who has collapsed from cholera. He rushes off to fetch a doctor, but finds only a monk willing to go near the boy. Meanwhile, the heat and stench of the city take their toll on him and he faints. Because of his contact with the fruit-seller and the epidemic in general, he is readily believed to have died of cholera and interred alive with minimal ceremony.
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Vendetta! / int_ee7fca3d	type	Silver Fox
Vendetta! / int_ee7fca3d	comment	Silver Fox: Being mistakenly buried leaves Fabio looking over thirty years older than he actually is, but after some selfcare he does come out as a "well-preserved man of about fifty-five". Characteristic to his new look is his striking white hair, which he grows into a beard.
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Vendetta! / int_f1a77879	type	Plaguemaster
Vendetta! / int_f1a77879	comment	Plaguemaster: The storekeeper isn't afraid of the cholera epidemic and actually is quite happy with it. He gets to buy the clothes of the deceased for cheap and anyone who buys from him is at risk of contracting the disease from the clothes, which then find their way back in the storekeeper's hands. Financial motivation aside, the storekeeper also seems to be driven by a desire to spread harm stemming from his guilt over murdering his wife.
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Vendetta! / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Vendetta! / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: Fabio Romani is wrongly thought to have died from cholera and is hastily interred in the family vault to be rid of the infectious corpse. Several hours later, Fabio awakens and realizes his situation. As he breaks through the wood of the coffin, he is relieved to find he's been interred and not buried, not to mention that due to the high death rate of the epidemic the coffin craftsmen only have time to produce shoddy coffins. Anything decent, and Fabio would've been stuck to die inside of it. A third boon is that because he was thought to have cholera, he's still clothed well against the cold of the vault by night. The last barrier that remains is the vault's gate, which is locked and as remote as the vault is located it's not likely anyone will be by soon. But he's in quadruple luck, because the Romani Vault had been selected by Carmelo Neri's gang of brigands as a hiding place for their loot and they've left a hidden tunnel.
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Vendetta! / int_f93e1eb7	type	Locked Away in a Monastery
Vendetta! / int_f93e1eb7	comment	Locked Away in a Monastery: Nina has been raised in a convent renowned for strict discipline. Her father seems to have put her there because he's got barely any money left and can't raise her himself. The added benefit is that she becomes a more valuable bride that he can set up for a wealthy marriage. Indeed, Nina lives at the convent until she's about fifteen to sixteen years of age, which is when she meets Fabio Romani who arranges for them to get married.
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