Review: The Italian Traditions & Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera The Italian Traditions & Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera . By Nicholas Baragwanath . Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press , 2011 , xx + 407 pages. Il Trittico, Turandot and Puccini’s Late Style . By Andrew Davis . Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press , 2010 , xiii + 309 pages.