Maria Pia is stubborn, not willing to take advice and unabashedly self-centred, self-confident even if it does not show at first sight, humanely generous, of a helpful disposition and undoubted goodness, rational, like all women of her land, but capable of sudden unexpected flights of fancy, unsettling and unpredictable at once, with a hint of sincere unexpected madness, an imaginative story teller, childishly affectionate, touchy and clever… But in a naive manner, with the innocence of a teenager of past times. That is what sets her apart, and makes her an artist.