The 157th Infantry Division "Novara" (Italian: 157ª Divisione di fanteria "Novara") was an infantry division of the Royal Italian Army during the World War II.

The Novara was classified as an occupation infantry division, which meant that the division's artillery regiment consisted of two artillery groups instead of the three artillery groups of line infantry divisions and that the divisional mortar battalion was replaced by a divisional machine gun battalion.

[1][2] The division's lineage begins with the Brigade "Novara" raised in March 1915 with the 153rd and 154th infantry regiments.

[1][3][4] The division remained in the Venezia Giulia region with its headquarter in Trieste and its units in Divača, Pula, Sežana, and Ilirska Bistrica.

The division patrolled the Italian-Yugoslav border to prevent Yugoslav partisans from entering Italian territory.