Publisher's Synopsis
Book 3 of this series shows how libretti were created by Ruggero Leoncavallo and by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa using various elements of Henry Murger's novel, Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (abbreviated as Scènes; see also Book 1 of the series) and Murger and Théodore Barrière's play, La Vie de Bohème (see also Book 2 of the series). It also contains a comparison of the two libretti.
