Giacomo Puccini refuting the allegations made against her. Elvira Puccini was prosecuted for slander, and was sentenced to more than five months in prison, although a payment to the Manfredi family by Puccini spared Elvira from having to serve the sentence. Some music critics and interpreters of Puccini's work have speculated that the psychological effects of this incident on Puccini interfered with his ability to complete compositions later in his career, and also influenced the development of his characters such as Liù (from "Turandot"), a slave girl who dies tragically by suicide. According to documents found in the possession of a descendant
Mario Puccini body interred in the memorial chapel near the Sanctuary of Montenero. This process was stalled, for bureaucratic reasons, but the group persisted and his remains were finally placed there in 1988. In 1949, a street in Quercianella was named after him. Mario Puccini Mario Puccini (28 June 1869, Livorno – 18 June 1920, Florence) was an Italian Post-impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and village scenes. He was sometimes referred to as "The Italian Van Gogh". His father was a baker. He worked in his father's bakery and sketched as a hobby until his talent was noticed by Giovanni Fattori,