 She is believed to have contributed, and is specifically recorded as assisting Preti on his best known work, a series of paintings depicting the life and martyrdom of St John the Baptist (1661–1666), which decorates the vaults of the co-Cathedral.She was a strong-minded and versatile person; characteristics clearly seen in the two wills she drafted.Giovannantonio Ciantar's "Malta Illustrata" (1772) paints a picture of a person who knew what she wanted to do with her life from a young age