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[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Born in Petriolo on January 24th<\/sup>, 1892 – Died in Macerata on October 17th<\/sup>, 1973. The members of his family were largely educators: Luigi, his father, worked as a teacher at the primary school; his grandfather, Giovanni, was a teacher and a patriot (he was member of the Municipal Council which collected the votes for the subscription to Vittorio Emanuele II\u2019s constitutional monarchy).<\/p>\n \u201cNanni de lu conde\u201d<\/em> \u2019s homonym grandson, Giovanni Ginobili, spent his childhood and part of his youth in Romania, where he learnt the local language and studied the custom and traditions. He deepened this knowledge through Carmen Syilva\u2019s books, which influenced his future education as a folklorist and dialectologist. Thanks to this book, he had the opportunity to know an almost unknown local community of shepherds, in the area of Scrofantina, located among the mountains surrounding the city of Valona. Giovanni Ginobili studied customs and traditions of the Romanian shepherds, translating in Italian their legendary songs and poems telling the heroic deeds against Turkish and Albanian people.<\/p>\n He studied as a teacher in Jesi. Then, since 1920, he worked first as a substitute teacher at the primary schools in the area of Ancona, later he became stable in Sirolo. After, he decided to move to Macerata, the city where he spent the largest part of his career between 1926 and 1960, the year when he retired.<\/p>\n Thanks to his ability in writing poems and music, he wrote many educative songs, which were published in well-known school magazines, such as \u201cI diritti della scuola\u201d, \u201cRivista di Educazione Materna\u201d, \u201cLa voce delle maestre dell\u2019asilo\u201d<\/em> and, above all the Florentine \u201cCorriere musicale dei piccoli\u201d<\/em>, for which he collaborated.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8 vc_col-md-8″ css=”.vc_custom_1572888342970{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]
\nGiovanni was born on January 24th<\/sup>, 1892 in an ancient family of Petriolo, the Ginobilis, also known with the name \u201cConte\u201d.<\/p>\n