Library Book Talk set for Feb. 6

FALLBROOK – A book talk on “The Four Seasons,” authored by Laurel Corona, will be held at the Fallbrook Library on Feb. 6 at 1 p m.

The book is the story of two sisters who were abandoned as babies on the steps of Ospedale della Pieta, Venice’s world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. High-spirited and rebellious, Chiaretta marries into a great aristocratic Venetian family and eventually becomes one of the most powerful women in Venice. Maddalena becomes a violin virtuoso and Antonio Vivaldi’s muse. The Four Seasons is a rich, literary imagination of the world of 18th century...