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The soundtrack is pleasing as well. The light-handed opening and ending themes suit the series beautifully, and delicate strains of background music throughout evoke precisely the right register of Fantasy Italy. As for the voice acting, it is also solid throughout; of course, the indisputed Grand Master of the piece is Fumiko Orikasa (name three relatively recent anime series at random and she's probably been in at least one of them), who plays Nicoletta, but the large supporting cast playing the men are also quite good. Jin Yamanoi in particular does an exceptional job as the complicated and oft frustrated Claudio—he executes the role with precisely the right combination of honeyed and lukewarm tones.
It's understandable that Mori is in love with the subject matter and wants to take her time introducing the world and its people, but at a certain point you just have to ask when the actual storyline is going to show up. There's only so much excitement to be had from looking at woodcarving porn, adventures in child-reaing, and Amir overreacting to Karluk being sick. Sometimes the characters are even upstaged by their own clothes, with fancy headgear and distracting outfits making it hard to identify people early on.
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