Around the same time, Leoncavallo & this man both wrote operas based on the novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"
[DOC] [TLE] FAMOUS TENOR ARIAS (Thomas Harper) - Naxos [PAR] Un ballo in maschera, with a libretto by Antonio Somma based on a French ... si, 
ben mio, Manrico, who has rescued Leonora from the Count and his men and ... 
La Bohme followed in 1896, based on Henry Murger's Scenes de la vie de 
Bohme.