The cloak is a French "grand guignol" that Puccini saw in Paris and captured the imagination of the plot's openly naturalistic nature. In the play, a justifiably jealous husband takes revenge on his wife’s lover. Puccini sought to stick to the very fashionable French style at the time. The first version of the textbook did not prove to be harsh and ordinary enough for the maestro, so he contacted an Italian writer living in Paris to help stifle the dialogues with the missing "spoken language" twists. The story of Gianni Schicchi is known from Dante’s Divine Play. In the eighth potty of hell, those who have taken on the identities of others are punished. According to the story, Bouso, a wealthy Florentine citizen, dies unexpectedly. Relatives panic when it turns out,