A distinguished professor of architecture, responsible for many other contemporaneous outrages in Ferrara, had been entrusted with the building of it by Moise Finzi-Contini, Alberto and Micol's great-grandfather, who died in 1863, shortly after the northern provinces of the papal states had been annexed by the kingdom of Italy; as a result of which the Jewish ghetto in Ferrara was abolished, once and for all.
Eraikuntza haren egilea arkitektura irakasle ospetsu bat izan zen, hirian ere garai hartan eraiki ziren antzeko beste itsuskeria askoren erantzulea; eta enkargatu zuena Moisè Finzi-Contini izan zen, Alberto eta Micòlen birraitona aitaren aldetik, 1863an hila Aitasantuaren eskumeneko lurraldeak Italiako Erresumaren mende geratu eta gero, eta, hortaz, Ferraran ere juduentzako ghettoa behin betiko iraungi ondoren.