"La solitudine" ("The Loneliness") is a song by Italian pop singer Laura Pausini, released as her debut single by CGD in February 1993.

A slower, more dramatic version with live instrumentation was featured on her 2001 compilation album The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te.

The same arrangement was used for the new version of the Spanish counterpart of the song, included in Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti.

[6] Pausini's greatest-hits album 20 – The Greatest Hits also featured a new recording of "La solitudine", with arrangements by Ennio Morricone.

[8][9] The lyrics to the Italian version of the song are about a boy named Marco, who is separated from his girlfriend at the urging of his family and sent to live far away from her.

"[13] According to Univision's Fabiana Steinmander, Laura Pausini's "La solitudine" is a song "with a high degree of difficulty because of the number of vocal transitions and the modulation it demands of its singer".

[14] An Italian-language and a Spanish-language music video for the song, both directed by Ambrogio Lo Giudice, were shot on the Ostia jetty.

[35] Laura Pausini performed the song live for the first time on 23 February 1993, competing in the newcomers' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival, broadcast by Italian TV station Rai 1.

[43] In 2002 Pausini dueted with Lara Fabian, singing "La solitudine" during a French TV show recorded in Rome.

[47] The Spanish version of the album, Laura Live Gira Mundial 09, features a recording of the song performed in Barcelona.

[citation needed] In 1994, Thanos Kalliris recorded a Greek version of the song, titled "Το Νου σου κύριε Οδηγέ".

[51] In the same year Paul de Leeuw recorded a Dutch language version of "La solitudine", with the title "Ik wil niet dat je liegt" (English translation: I don't want you to lie).

DLG's version also adds a spoken reggae bridge to the song, in which the woman Dunbar is singing to responds to his plea and vows to return.

In 2014, the song was performed live by Teodora Sava when she was 12 years old, in duet with Paula Seling, as special guests of the Romanian kids talent show Next Star.

[63] The song was chosen for a TV commercial promoting the Sanremo Music Festival 2013, in which presenter Luciana Littizzetto sings "La solitudine" while traveling in a subway train.