The Four Seasons - A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice by Laurel Corona was my last vacation read. I finished it the night we returned home. It was absolutely wonderful historical fiction about life in Venice, Italy in the early 1700s. It focuses on the orphan female musicians of the Pieta Coro, or the figlie de coro, daughters of the chorus. Vivaldi was a priest and composer at that time, and he would write music for the figlie to play and sing. Maddelena and Chiaretta are sisters who were left at the Pieta when they were 3 years old and a few months old respectively. I loved reading about their lives, their music, and venetian society.
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