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A sensuous story of the personal and business tribulations of a German trying to introduce printing to fifteenth century Venice, and of his Venetian wife. They have to deal with the full range of human types, all of whom seem to be unconsciously influenced by the life and poems of Catullus - the poet at the centre of the printer's efforts. All of the senses are conjured up in the descriptions of life in Venice. The prejudices, fears, habits of those who are Venetian as well as of the outsiders comes over clearly.

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