Vivaldi's Venice

Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I should just say in defence of this book by the above reviewer that the error of Vivaldi's date of birth (quoted as 1762) is likely to be a simple typo, as the date (which should read 1962!) refers to when Vivaldi's true date of birth was REDISCOVERED in the 20th Century, as stated earlier in the book.

I haven't quite finished this book but I find it very readable and sheds new light on the character of il Prete Rosso through his relationship with Venice. Enjoyable.

Rating:
Summary: Unreliable information
Review: I would not recommend this book to anyone who likes accuracy in their historical reading. This book is nicely written and contains some good pictures, but the data gathering on the life of Vivaldi is faulty, and so I tend to mistrust the accuracy of the entire book. On page 177, near the bottom, this book states that Vivaldi's actual date of birth was discovered at the end of the 20th century, and was actually 1762! That's quite an error, since Vivaldi was born in 1678. Another error, was stating Anna Giro as being from France. There were many other questionable conclusions drawn about Vivaldi's life, and conjectures on the author's part presented as facts. About halfway through it, I just lost my trust in it.