Anna Maria Arduino

Anna Maria Arduino (1672–1700) was an Italian regent, socialite, painter and writer.

[1][2] She was the regent of the Principality of Piombino during the minority of her son Prince Niccolò II Ludovisi in 1699–1700.

She was born in Messina, Italy in 1672, to Giovanna Furnari and Paolo Arduino, the Prince of Polizzi and Marquis of Floresta.

[4] She wrote poems and sonnets in Latin and Italian under the pseudonym Getilde Faresia.

[5] 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.