Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic. "A Venetian Affair" tells a story of a doomed love affair between a young Venetian nobleman and his lover. Andrea di Robilant tells the story to Anne Strainchamps, and we hear excerpts from the letters read by actors Colleen Madden and Jim Burns of American Players Theater, all set to music from the great days of the Venetian Republic.