[1] They lived in an apartment on the top floor of the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa, where she hosted Enlightenment intellectuals of the day in her salon.

[1] Anna Pieri often visited Paris during the First French Empire, and was admitted to the court as a lady in waiting to Marie Louise of Austria, the second wife of Napoleon.

[1] After Bonaparte was exiled to Elba in 1814, Anna followed Marie Lousie to Austria to try to persuade her to remain faithful to Napoleon and to sustain him during this difficult time.

However, the court became increasingly hostile to Napoleon and suspicious of Anna, who was guarded by secret police in the Schönbrunn Palace, where she died in 1815.

Anna Pieri Brignole Sale commissioned the neoclassical decoration by the painter Giuseppe Canepa.