ation. Religion was also truly lambasted in numerous ways. For example, in Chapter XI and XII, the old woman relates her story about how she was "the daughter of Pope Urban X, and of the Princess of Palestrina. To the age of fourteen I was brought up in a castle, compared with which all the castles of the German barons would not have been fit for stabling, and one of my robes would have bought half the province of Westphalia." In the war
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