Vivaldi’s Virgins (2007) is a novel by American writer Barbara Quick

The novel is set in the Ospedale della Pieta during the lifetime of Anna Maria della Pieta (c1696 - 1782).

According to her website, Vivaldi’s Virgins took Barbara Quick 4 years to write and 4 trips to Venice to conduct research.

In the novel, Anna Maria della Pieta – who was abandoned as a baby – longs to find out who her parents are. On several occasions she manages to escape the orphanage to go exploring the city and to find out who she is, but each time she is caught and punished.

Eventually, however, she founds out the truth about herself.