Figure to yourself the distressed condition of the daughter of a Pope, only fifteen years old, and who in less than three months had felt the miseries of poverty and slavery; had been debauched almost every day; had beheld her mother cut into four quarters; had experienced the scourges of famine and war; and was now dying of the plague at Algiers.
Fígurese vm. qué situacion para la hija de un papa, de quince años de edad, que en el espacio de tres meses habia sufrido pobreza y esclavidud, habia sido violada casi todos los dias, habia visto hacer quatro pedazos á su madre, habia padecido las plagas de la guerra y la hambre, y se moria de la peste en Argel.