The daughter of an Austrian army officer, while still a child Boschetti danced in some productions with Marie Taglioni and Fanny Cerrito.

Her parents enrolled her in the ballet school directed by Carlo Blasis, and she made her debut as prima ballerina in 1848, when she was only 12 years old, at the Teatro Re.

[1] In 1849 Boschetti signed a two-year contract with the impresario Domenico Ronzani, and with his company she toured Europe, performing in Barcelona, Trieste, Florence, and Vienna, among other places.

[1] In 1864 she was prima ballerina at the Paris Opera for a few months, and later had great success at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

[1][2] She was a longtime lover of Prince Louis, Count of Trani, brother of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.