39. Salve Regina

Ghislanzoni’s poem Salve Regina, freely adapting the liturgical antiphon of the same name, was first published in 1882 in the second edition of his Melodie per Canto. 
Puccini also used this music in the finale of the first part of Le Villi (60, as No. 5, Preghiera, of the current Ricordi score).