• Gaetano Donizetti. Melodramma semiserio in three acts. 1842.
• Libretto by Gaetano Rossi, after the play La grâce de Dieu (The Grace of God) by Adolphe-Philippe d'Ennery and Gustave Lemoine.
• First performance at the Kärntnertortheater, Vienna, on 19th May 1842.

Linda's parents are worried at the attentions paid her by the Marquis and think they may have to leave their farm in the Haute Savoie. She is in love with Carlo, and thinks he is a painter, although he is, in fact, the nephew of the Marquis. The Calvinist pastor advises Linda’s father to send her away with other young people to Paris, since the Marquis, it seems, has offered to buy her favours in return for the mortgage of her father's farm. In Paris Carlo establishes her in a fine apartment and plans to marry her. She rejects further advances from the Marquis, but is cursed by her father, when he finds her in such luxury, imagining the worst. Meanwhile Carlo is being forced by his mother into an appropriate marriage, news of which sends Linda mad. Matters are put right in the third act, when Carlo is allowed to marry her, a step that brings her to her senses again.

Linda's father Antonio expresses his sadness at the likely forced departure from his native valley in Ambo nati in questa valle (Both born in this valley). Linda's entrance, O luce di quest'anima (O light of this soul) was added for the Paris staging of the opera. There is a particularly fine love duet for Carlo and Linda in A consolarmi affrettisi (Hurry to console me).