Short answers, pulled from the story.
Elisa Bonaparte, born Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte on the 3rd of January 1777, was the eldest surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and the younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was the fourth surviving child in the family, with elder brothers Joseph and Lucien and younger siblings Louis, Pauline, Caroline, and Jérôme.
Elisa Bonaparte ruled as Princess of Lucca and Piombino from 1805 to 1814 and as Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1809 to 1814. She was also granted Massa and Carrara in 1806, making her one of the most powerful women in Napoleonic Europe.
Elisa Bonaparte was the only one of Napoleon's sisters to hold real political power. Napoleon generally distrusted politically active women, but he recognized Elisa as exceptional, later saying she had "a masculine mind, a forceful character, noble qualities and outstanding intelligence."
Elisa Bonaparte nationalized clergy property, issued a new rural legal code in 1808 and a penal code in 1807, established free medical consultations for the poor, built a new hospital in the former monastery of Sant' Anastasia that opened in 1810, and founded schools including compulsory education for girls aged 5 to 8. She also created the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Carrara and the Banque Élisienne to support sculptors.
Elisa Bonaparte contracted a fatal illness in June 1820, probably at an archaeological excavation site near her country house at Villa Vicentina near Cervignano. She died on the 7th of August 1820 at the age of 43 and was buried in the San Petronio Basilica of Bologna.
After fleeing Lucca on the night of the 13th of March 1814 and abdicating as Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Elisa was arrested on the 25th of March 1814 and interned in the Austrian fortress of Brünn. She was freed at the end of August and authorized to live in Trieste with the title Countess of Compignano, later settling at the Villa Caprara and then at Villa Vicentina near Cervignano.