#a loooong time ago i was asked if i had info about anna - here's something i came across

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The Archdukes had arrived in Naples, aboard the Elisabetta, on January 30 [of 1859], and immediately went to greet the reigning family of Tuscany, who had arrived there on the 22nd, taking lodgings at the Foresteria, to attend the wedding celebrations [of Prince Francesco of the Two Sicilies and Duchess Marie Sophie in Bavaria], despite the anxiety in which they lived due to the illness of the young Archduchess Anna [née Princess of Saxony], wife of the Crown Prince Ferdinand. The Grand Ducal family was almost complete. In addition to the Grand Duke Leopoldo, the Grand Duchess Maria Antonia, sister of the King [Ferdinando II of the Two Sicilies], the hereditary Archduke and Archduchess, Archduke Carlo and Archduchess Maria Luisa, the last of the six children of Leopold II, there was a numerous retinue [sic Carlo and Maria Luisa had two younger brothers]. Archduchess Anna, 23 years old, younger sister of the Duchess of Genoa, who had fallen ill in Florence, was treated by the Florentine doctors Capecchi and Del Punta. The Grand Duke had asked the King for a good Neapolitan doctor, and the King had sent Don Franco Rosati to Florence, in whom he placed much greater trust than in Ramaglia. Under Rosati's care, the princess seemed cured; but when the Grand Ducal family came to Naples, the illness reappeared and soon degenerated into tuberculosis. Rosati, who lived in the same palace of the Foresteria, also treated her in Naples, and Del Punta was also called from Florence, who arrived only in time to sign the last bulletins with Rosati. She died on February 10; and, struck by such a grave misfortune, the family no longer had the courage to remain in Naples, and so, two days after her death, they had the body of the poor Archduchess transported to Florence, where she was buried in San Lorenzo, the grieving family left on the morning of February 21, embarking for Livorno. The Neapolitans were amazed by the simplicity of the Tuscan Court. (...) A long journey from Florence to Naples, a serious domestic misfortune and a melancholy return, without seeing the Sovereigns, nor the spouses, deeply moved the souls of the Neapolitans.

de Cesare, Raffaele (1900). La fine di un regno (Napoli e Sicilia). Parte I Regno di Ferdinando II (machine translation, keep in my mind that nuances may/have been lost)

Pictured: Anna, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Archduchess of Austria, by Philipp-Albert Gliemann, unknown date (Via Wikimedia Commons).