The fascinating cemetery offers a key to understanding Ferrara.
Why opt for the cemetery as one of the most significant symbols in a city as rich in prestigious monuments as Ferrara? To me, cemeteries faithfully reflect the spirit of their cities. And in this respect the cemetery of Ferrara is second to none.

To start with, it lies within the city itself. An 1811 decree exempted Ferrara from the Napoleonic law ordering cemeteries to be built outside the town walls, because of the extensive open green spaces already incorporated into the city.

The restoration of a major Rossetti church.
Among the religious buildings attributed to the architect Biagio Rossetti, the church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa represents a high point in cultural research. The original Certosa was built by Borso d'Este in 1452 in an area outside the medieval city walls of Ferrara. This area was subsequently brought within the walls when Ercole I extended the town, and in the last decade of the fifteenth century, the new church was erected.

Il tempio è oggetto di un restauro importante, esemplare delle tendenze museologiche più avanzate e illuminate

 

Racconta Goethe, che nel 1787 Philipp Hackert, pittore e paesaggista che il poeta stimò al punto di raccogliere in una biografia il suo diario (Philipp Hackert. La vita, ed. or. Tubinga 1811, trad. it. a cura di M. Novelli Radice, Napoli-Roma 1988), su ordine di Ferdinando IV re di Napoli, chiese a Friedrich Anders di restaurare alcuni quadri tra i quali figurava la Deposizione di Cristo che, nel 1637, Jusepe de Ribera dipinse per la cappella del tesoro e delle sacre reliquie della Certosa napoletana di San Martino, sulla quale un certo Episcopo aveva ridipinto.