“A genuine successor to [Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring]...Quick gives us a vivid sense of both the pleasures and frustrations of living within [the] cloistered world...of Venice...[an] accomplished novel.” -- Chicago Tribune

In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick recreates 18th 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.