La straniera ("The Foreign Woman") is an opera in two acts with music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the novel "L'Étrangère" (2 vols, 1825) by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt, although writer Herbert Weinstock also adds that it is "more likely on a dramatization of novel in Italian by Giovan Carlo, barone di Cosenza" since he then quotes a letter from Bellini to his friend Francesco Florimo in which he says that Romani "certainly will not follow the play" then that they were aware of its existence.