After the arrival in Ferrara of twenty-one families of Spanish Jews following the edict of expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, in the thirties of the sixteenth century there were also numerous Lusitanian Marranos who founded the University of Portuguese Jews. This is a community of new Christians who, with the approval of the Estensi, can resume practising the Jewish worship denied by the Inquisition in their country of origin. In addition, they are entitled to a plot of land where they can bury their dead. A document from 1570 preserved in the State Archive of Ferrara reports the sale to the University of Portuguese Jews of land for this purpose between today's Via Arianuova and Via Pavone. Enlarged in 1739, during the nineteenth century this cemetery was progressively reduced, also due to the complaints of citizens who denounced its closeness to the houses, to which it pre-existed. To date, there are only four mazevòt (funerary stelae) of Ferrara citizens of the Jewish religion who died during the nineteenth century: Aaron Shemaria Saralvo, Yosef Refael Yuda Chayyim (Vita) Sarlavo and his wife Cremisina, Nechama (Consola) Cavalieri, Yosef Saralvo. The current access to the site does not correspond to the original one where a garage is now located, but is an addition from the eighties. The cemetery is currently closed to the public.