Around the same time, Leoncavallo & this man both wrote operas based on the novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"
[DOC] [TLE] La bohme - San Diego Opera [PAR] In documentation that still exists, Leoncavallo swears that sometime in 1892 he ... 
of the novel to Puccini and Puccini's publisher Ricordi but that at the time both ...