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Vivaldi's virgins

a novel
2007
Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin, a foundling raised at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, receives training from violin master and priest Antonio Vivaldi, but even the difficulties of trying to play Vivaldi's music cannot keep Anna from her quest to search the city for information about her parents whom she has been told are dead.

A golden web

2010
In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.
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