What happened to the tombstones from the Sephardic cemetery in Ferrara, Italy?

Описание: A brief discussion of the 1960 discovery of Jewish tombstones in the monument to Borso d'Este in Ferrara, Italy.

For further reading:

Antonio Spagnuolo, “Were the ancient headstones sold or stolen and who was responsible for their disappearance?” The Librarians (National Library of Israel blog) https://blog.nli.org.il/en/cemetery_f...

Antonio Spagnuolo, “Il riutilizzo della stele funerary dei cimiteri ebraici sefarditi di Ferarra nel pinqas della scuola spagnuola degli anni 1715-1811,” Materia Guidaica XXIII (2018), https://www.academia.edu/37434570/Il_...

Paolo Ravenna, Le lapidi ebraiche nella colonna di Borso d'Este a Ferrara (2003)

Flavio Baroni, Ferrara Ebraica: Le lapidi israelite nella colonna di Borso d'Este (2018)

L. Sirovich, and F. Pettenati (2015), Source inversion of the 1570 Ferrara earthquake and definitive diversion of the Po River (Italy), J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, 5747–5763
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