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HarperCollins
July 2007
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Featuring: Anna Maria dal Violin
304 pages
ISBN: 0060890525
EAN: 9780060890520
Hardcover
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Historical
In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates
eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and
decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths
and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the
eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians
cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi—known
as the Red Priest of Venice—is maestro and composer.
Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale
della Pietà as an infant, is determined to find out who she
is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the
cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian
society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish
Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the
passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for
their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music
and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in
thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the
entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of
Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A
virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a
Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating
glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy,
interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young
woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and
place.
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