The play tells the story of Julio, a young man who arrives in Venice and falls in love with a young married woman.
[4] The anonymous play was discovered by E. Lovarini in a Venetian book at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, and published by him in 1928.
[4] The comedy plays on the dialects of Tuscany, Venice and Bergamo.
Julio, the educated foreigner, speaks Tuscan.
[8] The play was adapted in 1958 by Ingmar Bergman as the Swedish television drama The Venetian (Venetianskan), and in 1986 by Mauro Bolognini as the erotic movie The Venetian Woman (La Venexiana).