She was born in
Messina,
Italy in 1672, to Giovanna Furnari and Paolo Arduino, the
Prince of
Polizzi and
Marquis of Floresta. She was a descendant of the
Notarbartolo family, an
aristocratic family of the
Sicilian nobility. She authored writings and attended school under the pseudonym
Getilde Faresia. She was married in 1697 to the Prince of
Piombino,
Giovan Battista Ludovisi (1647– 24 August 1699) and together they had a child named Niccolò II Ludovisi (c.1698–1699) and lived in
Rome. She attended the
Pontifical Academy of Arcadia (Accademia dell'Arcadia) in 1697. She wrote poems and sonnets in Latin and Italian under the pseudonym Getilde Faresia. Her spouse died in 1699 and the principality succession fell to Niccolò II Ludovisi for a few months, after his father's death, and Anna Maria Arduino served as the
Regent during his minority. That same year, in 1699 her young son died. Arduino died shortly after in Naples, Italy on 29 December 1700 at the age of 28. She is buried in the church of
San Diego all'Ospedaletto, her grave is shared with her son and the
sepulchres are marked by two marble
bas-reliefs that depict the son and the half-length of the mother, they were sculpted between 1703 and 1704 by
Giacomo Colombo. == References ==