This condition is expected from a woman as soon as she is married. The fact that Lusanna was sterile made it very difficult for her to find a suitable husband during this period. That's why she tried to trap John by making him promise to marry her if her husband died. During the trial it was found that while she was married to Andrea, her first husband, she did not give him children. Perhaps this explains why Lusanna so desperately contested the collective ideals of her society and objected to her marriage to John being recognized by the court. Although she had other suitors interested in her, she was getting older and needed someone she could rely on to take care of her in old age. Women during this time lived at home with their families because they could not own property. Without the ability to have children, Lusanna's place in the world would have worsened. A woman's ability to bear children and provide a man with male heirs is a persistent ideal throughout history. Could it not have been concluded that, since she was sterile and saw no hope for her future except in marriage to Giovanni, she would have wanted to appeal to the court stating that Marietta and Giovanni's marriage was indeed invalid? This shows that Lusanna undeniably needed to press the issue that she and John were legal