Villa Mariani many personal items of Mariani such as clothes, hats, walking sticks, etc. The lounge, which thanks to Winter’s expansion, reached , still retains a belief in oak paneling built by Eugenio Quarter. On a piece of furniture there is a clock given by Arturo Toscanini, depicting a scene from the "Turandot" of Giacomo Puccini, and a friend of the two artists. A trivia is that "Turandot", Puccini's unfinished work, was eventually completed by Franco Alfano, who stayed in Bordighera in 1926, in the Villa of the Waves, as he composed the work "Madonna Imperia". In the dining room there is
Giacomo Puccini composers discovered that they were both engaged in writing operas based on Murger's work. Leoncavallo had started his work first, and he and his music publisher claimed to have "priority" on the subject (although Murger's work was in the public domain). Puccini responded that he started his own work without having any knowledge of Leoncavallo's project, and wrote: "Let him compose. I will compose. The audience will decide." Puccini's opera premiered a year before that of Leoncavallo, and has been a perennial audience favorite, while Leoncavallo's version of the story was quick to fade into obscurity. Puccini's next work after