Ferdinando was born on March 3, 1813, at Palermo as the son of Aloisio Beneventano del Bosco and Marianna Roscio who were nobility of Syracusan origins.

[4] With a strong-willed and aggressive character, endowed with a natural propensity for command, he had to temporarily leave his roles to take refuge in Malta since he had gone against the prohibition to participate in duels.

During the assault on Taormina, he asked in vain to lead the first wave and at Catania, he was at the forefront of the attack on a barricade and achieved two important successes in sequence in the area of Monserrato and Punta Verde.

[2][3][1] Two months later however, there was the surrender and he followed Francesco II to Rome until he was expelled by Pope Pius IX from the Papal States in September 1861 and del Bosco continued to organize the anti-unification movement, strengthened by the reputation of having been one of the few Bourbon officers not to have fled before Garibaldi.

[3] On December 12, 2014, a street in Milazzo was named after del Bosco after the council headed by Mayor Carmelo Pino approved the resolution for the renaming.