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Stabat Mater

Tiziano Scarpa · 2008 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

An orphan violinist at the Pietà in eighteenth-century Venice writes letters each night to the mother she never knew, until a new music master, Antonio Vivaldi, arrives. The foundling hospital's girls play behind a screen, and music becomes her only way out of enclosure. Winner of the Strega Prize.

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