Anna Maria della Pieta (1696-1782) was a famous Italian violinist for most of the eighteenth century. Probably the child of a sex worker, she grew up in, and remained at, Ospedale della Pieta, the famous Venetian orphanage where Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was her teacher. And that is the starting point for Harriet Constable’s debut novel […]
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