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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Tiziano Scarpa
|title=Stabat Mater
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Translated by Shaun Whiteside from Scarpa's 2008 Italian original, 'Stabat Mater' is set in a Venetian orphanage for girls run by nuns in what would have been around the 1700s. The girls at the 'Ospedale' are trained as musicians and singers who play from a hidden gallery in the adjoining church for the patrons of the Instituto della Pietà. However, this is a highly stylised little book, bordering on the almost poetic, narrated from the point of view of one of the orphans, a young violinist named Cecilia who goes on to tell of the impact of the appointment of a new in-house composer, one Don Antonio, or Vivaldi as most of us know him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687691</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christien Gholson
