La buona novella is the fourth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, released in 1970.

All tracks are written by Fabrizio De André, except where notedThe short opener "Laudate dominum" ("Praise the Lord"), sung by an operatic (church-like) choir, introduces the first song, which is about Mary's childhood.

As he draws closer to Jerusalem, he takes out a wooden doll he made for Mary, thinking how she missed playing and toys in her early childhood.

Meanwhile, the voices of the priests in the temple start to carry Mary away from the dream and, as she sees the angel "turn into a comet",[7] she is awakened by the noises coming from the streets.

[10] From the joyful atmosphere of the previous song, the story is now taken in a carpenter's workshop, where Mary asks him what he is working on, and if he is making crutches for the survivors of war.

The last song has an antithetical title to that of the opener and is a reprise of its theme.A choir who represents the poor tells about how Jesus is to be praised not as a God, but as a son of man, therefore a brother of mankind.

He also explained that the album is "an allegory, a comparison between the best and most reasonable principles of the protest movement and the spiritually wider ones of a man, born 1968 years before, who got himself nailed to a cross in the name of universal brotherhood and egalitarianism, against any abuse of power".

[17] In 2010, Italian progressive rock group Premiata Forneria Marconi released a remake of the album, titled A.D. 2010 - La buona novella; subtitled Opera apocrifa ["Apocryphal work"], the album features contemporary re-arrangements of De André's songs with the addition of some new, original instrumental sections.