[2] She married Ettore Vitale, pharmacist of the Knights Hospitaller, when she was a teenager.

[1] She was described as a successful businessperson, became very rich, and is known as a benefactor of the Carmelites.

[1] Being in an uncommon position for a woman, she was a controversial person and the subjects of legends, libelous slander and rumours, and was accused of being an enterprising prostitute, litigator and sadistic torturer of slaves.

[3] She died in 1619 at Syracuse and her body was brought to Valletta and buried at the Carmelite Church.

[5] Upon her death she bequeathed part of her fortune and her property Selmun Palace to the Monte della Redenzione degli Schiavi, a charity founded during the reign of Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt in 1607 to finance the redemption of the Maltese who had fallen into slavery.