ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the benefits of visualization as it applies to a research project focusing on a leading figure of the Venetian nineteenth century: Giacomo Treves dei Bonfili, a Jewish banker and significant player in the economic and cultural affairs of his time. Giacomo Treves dei Bonfili is an icon of the revolution in the Jewish emancipation process. The freedom of Jews to leave the Venetian Ghetto in 1797 was a crucial phase in the history of the Treves family. The collaboration of an historian with experts in land surveying and an engineer specializing in ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been an essential component of the research process in the analysis of the Treves garden in Padua. The drawing of the palace, the accompanying property, and garden owned by brothers Isaac and Jacob Treves dei Bonfili is currently in a private collection.
