The ruling Gonzaga family were – with the odd exception – ill-disposed towards the Jews. My impression is that most Jews in Mantua were of Italian origin, rather than coming from Spain and Portugal. There is a report of foreign Jews being expelled, and possible these were Sephardim. The Jewish archives of Mantua have now been put online. http://moked.it/mantovaebraica/archivio-storico/
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Sephardic Jewish Genealogy – Family History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish diaspora