They are kept separate from the general population and all men, except for the priests who are their instructors, to maintain their purity. Only girls are allowed to perform music in the Pieta. I was only a girl of eight when, newly ordained as a priest, Antonio Vivaldi, native son of Venezia, was hired by the governors of the Pieta to be our master of the violin." pg 2 He has been my teacher- and one of the very few men who has ever seen my face or spoken to me- for nearly half of my lifetime. One of her instructors is Antonio Vivaldi, who is called "The Red Priest" because of his fiery hair: "I heard and then watched Maestro Vivaldi climb the stairs.
Vivaldi's Virgins is a sparkling historical fiction about Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the orphans trained to perform music for the well-fare of the souls of Venice in the 1700's.
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