The Four Seasons Author:Laurel Corona A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice — In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city's passions blend in intoxicating ways. — Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. The two sisters were abandoned as babies on the steps of the Osp... more »edale della Pietß, Venice's world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. High-spirited and rebellious, Chiaretta marries into a great aristocratic Venetian family and eventually becomes one of the most powerful women in Venice. Maddalena becomes a violin virtuoso and Antonio Vivaldi's muse. The Four Seasons is a rich, literary imagination of the world of 18th-century Venice and the lives and loves of two extraordinary women.« less
I found this to be a very enjoyable read. I loved the music references in the book as well as the insight to the history of the times. Very well written.