The Four Seasons: 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 Ospedale 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."

Author: Laurel Corona
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.45w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781401309268
Award: San Diego Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/15/2008 pg. 44
Booklist 10/01/2008 pg. 22

About the Author
Laurel Corona is the author of twenty plus grade-school books and a professor of English at San Diego City College. She was a Charter Fellow at the San Diego Area Writing Project. She has a BA from University of California and an MA from University of Chicago and received her PhD from University of California. She currently lives in San Diego, CA.