Le donne letterate, composed by Antonio Salieri, is an Italian opera in three acts.

Stylistically it is an opera buffa and is very similar to the mid-18th century librettos of Carlo Goldoni.

The libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini [it], dancer, poet and stage manager, brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini, was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (The Learned Ladies).

[1][2] Salieri, wrote Le donne letterate in Vienna in late 1769 and early 1770.

It received its first performance during Carnival that same year at one of the Imperial theaters in Vienna.