Born in San Ginesio: Alberico Gentili (1552-1608), Giuseppe Piersanti, Aristide morichelli-ualtemps (1826-1896), Gaspare Focaccetti (1852-?), Raffaele Merelli (1886-1916), Guglielmo Ciarlantini (1881-1959), Giovanni Cucchiari (1894-1915), Febo Allevi (1911-1998), Nino Patrizi (1911-1973), Isladio Della Vecchia (1912-1969), Attilio Marinangeli (1913-1970), Focaccetti concept (1917-1943), Vincenzo Tortoreto (1929-1986)

Of Ginesina origin: Focaccetti concept (1814-1889), Alfonso Leopardi (1830-1900), Luca Tomassini (1970)

Themes: Gentili family (Matteo, Pancras, Scipione and Roberto), Religious of San Ginesio

Who was: Politico, First Podestà of San Ginesio
Vita: San Ginesio,
Description: A major figure of local public life during the fascist twenty years, linked his activity above all to the enhancement of the rural territory and to the commemoration of the fallen of the First World War. He began his political career as city ​​councilor In the 1910, then covering the office of councilor. In 1920 he was elected provincial councilor and remained in charge until 1925. On 6 September 1925 he was appointed Mayor of San Ginesio, charge that he maintained up to 3 April 1927, When he assumed the new function of Podestà, institution provided for by the fascist administrative reform that replaced the elected mayor.

His political action was oriented towards strengthening the agricultural roots of the territory and the containment of the phenomenon of urbanism. The chronicles of the time described him as an "active administrator, of wide views, in love with agricultural life ", close to the needs of the settlers and engaged in the modernization of the farmhouses, stables and production structures. His work was inspired by a practical patriotism, who aimed at improve the living conditions of the countryside and to strengthen the link between population and land, In tune with the agricultural directives of the fascist regime.

During his mandate important monumental interventions were carried out linked to the memory of the First World War, including the park of Rimembranza Designed by Guglielmo Ciarlantini, The plaque dedicated to the decorated with gold medal On the civic tower made by the sculptor Giuseppe De Angelis with the epigraph of the literate Enrico Mestica, and the publication of the volume Sangnesio to his heroes, Collection of memories of the fallen. Under his guide the local heroes Raffaele Merelli and Giovanni spoon were also celebrated, Both awarded the gold medal for military valor.

The figure of Giuseppe Piersanti was remembered as that of a determined administrator, faithful to the regime but deeply rooted in the local civic tradition, capable of combining rural modernization and patriotic values, and thus becoming a point of reference For the SangineSina Community in the 1920s.

Who was: Noble and politician, First mayor of San Ginesio
Vita: San Ginesio, 15 April 1826 – San Ginesio, 6 January 1896
Description: Aristide Morichelli d'Altemps was born in San Ginesio on 15 April 1826 to his father Ilarione Morichelli and Marianna d'Altemps. Belonging to the noble family Morichelli-d'Altemps, born by marriage of the two parents, both of noble family, during his life he will cover a short military service as a second lieutenant of the Second Civic Company of the San Ginesio Battalion. Already at 25 years his name is on the list of 96 richest people in the municipal area e, because of his political ideas, close to the thought of StHistorical window, of’anarchy and gods revolutionary movements, he was placed under surveillance by the local authorities. After graduating in law, on 17 September 1851 was elected city ​​councilor, even if the apostolic delegate of Macerata did not validate the vote, considering it null for political reasons. After being re-elected on 3 September 1857, on 10 November of the same year was chosen to become Prior, the equivalent of the mayor, position to be filled from 1858 to 1860.

Assumed the office on 26 January 1858, and automatically became leader of the judiciary of San Ginesio, with the events that led to the Castelfidardo Battle on 18 September 1860 and the weakening of the Papal States, was chosen as president of the Provisional Council of City Government and member of the provincial, position to be filled from 24 September 1860 to 10 February 1961. With the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, on October 1860 he became the first mayor of San Ginesio, although his work, rich in internal feuds, it wasn't simple. Forced to leave office in the 1868 for family reasons, was re-elected again in August 1882, holding again the title of mayor until 1891.

Who was: Jurist and prefect of the Kingdom
Vita: San Ginesio, 16 November 1852 – San Ginesio, ?
Description: Nephew of S.E. Mons. Focaccetti concept, He was born from Nicola Focaccetti e He studied jurisprudence at the University of Macerata, where he graduated with brilliance. During youth He wore the official uniform of the royal army, maintaining constant interest in legal studies. The administrative career is very early, He was appointed secretary, then councilor of the prefecture and subsequently vice -prefect In Foligno and Biella. He advanced as a managing director of Jovino and therefore as a prefect in various locations.

His prefectural career brought him to Rovigo, where the prefecture reasseed from 1 October 1906 to 16 May 1911, Then in Ravenna, where he arrived in 1914 Following the ministerial decree. He was subsequently prefect In Porto Maurizio (Today Imperia) and in Pisa, assignment that he held during the years of the Great War, between the 1915 and the 1917, period marked by widespread social tensions and strikes, that the prefect reported how “almost daily reiteration of protests”.

In the local chronicles his return to his homeland was celebrated with a solemn discourse of the mayor, who remembered him as “illustrious fellow citizen” and “Worthy successor of the late Uncle Mons. Focaccetti concept”. In the speech, his attachment to the native land and the hope that his prestige would favor the solution of city problems was underlined. The speaker enhanced his quick and brilliant career, attributed to his strong intellect and his tenacity, also recalling the family tradition of commitment and doctrine.

Was awarded the title of commander and retired in the 1919 for reached seniority limits.

Who was: Teacher and military
Vita: San Ginesio, 19 August 1886 - Please, 10 October 1916
Description: Raffaele Merelli was born in San Ginesio on 19 August 1886 by Agostino Merelli and Clotilde Onofri. After completing master's secondary studies, presumably to schools in their own country (today IIS Alberico Gentili) took up the profession of teacher at the elementary schools of Monza, specializing in scientific studies and also attending an electrical engineering course. Supporter of interventionism in the WWI, after the Kingdom of Italy entered the war, occurred on 24 May 1915, he enlisted in the Royal Army, precisely in the 29th Infantry Regiment, "Pisa" brigade, with the rank of second lieutenant of the M.T..

In December of the same year he reached Sacred, on the Isonzo front, finding himself fighting against the Austrians in the fourth battle of the Isonzo: it was on this occasion that his ingenuity led him to the creation of a special device for launching jelly tubes designed to destroy enemy fences, thus saving the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. In the early months of 1916 fu promoted to lieutenant and took part in all the fighting sustained by his brigade, employed by the 21st division. In San Martino del Carso, or in the quinta battaglia, deserved a solemn commendation on 6 June and the 6 August, during the preparatory phase of the sixth battle, was wounded during an assault on a trench, this earned him the bronze medal for military valor. After recovering from health, during the eighth battle, precisely the 10 October, participated in an attack on Lokvica during which he came out of the Italian trenches to go and check the damage inflicted on the fences that protected the enemy positions, and then attacking them at the command of his platoon. During a hand-to-hand combat inside an opposing trench it was wound a first time, continuous the continuation of all the necessary requirements fight until he received a shotgun shot abdomen, immediately pouring in serious condition. He died the next morning inside a surgical ambulance of the 3rd Army in Gradisca. For his courage he was decorated with the medal of gold to military valor.

To date Merelli has received other awards: Macerata and San Ginesio have a street that bears his name, Rome has dedicated a school to him and Monza, as well as dedicating a way to him, he placed a commemorative plaque on the outer wall of the school where he taught.

Who was: Painter, teacher and architect
Vita: San Ginesio, 21 November 1881 – San Ginesio, 26 May 1959
Description: Guglielmo Ciarlantini was born in San Ginesio on 21 November 1881 by Elimeno Ciarlantini and Domenica Ricci. His business like painter began before taking regular art courses. The turning point in his life came from Brother Paolo Mussini that, after having surprised him painting the apse of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in the Convent of the Clarisse, advised him to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1905 he moved to the capital where he enrolled in the nude course at the Institute of Fine Arts, meanwhile he attended the history of art lessons given by Giulio Ferrari at the Art Museum of Rome and attended the studio of Giulio Aristide Sartorio. To further expand the knowledge of the art sector, for two years he attended the French Academy at Villa Medici.

After completing his studies he returned to San Ginesio where he taught three years in Directed by Scuola Normale (today IIS Alberico Gentili) as alternate member, but due to the entry of the Kingdom of Italy in the First World War, he was called to arms. After the war he returned to the Marche where he continued his career as a teacher for about thirty years at the Art Institute of Macerata. In 1939 he was appointed commissioner for state exams in the commission of Ascoli Piceno and became part of juries for artistic competitions, the last of which was announced for the decoration of the concert hall of the Liceo Rossigni in Pesaro, as well as being Honorary Inspector of Antiquities, Monuments and art galleries for over thirty years. In 1951 he was appointed Ordinary Academician of the Accademia dei Catenati of Macerata, only to die in his hometown in 1959.

Ciarlantini did not only deal with painting, but also of architecture, built under the Fascist period. Most of the works are in rationalism Italian, but due to anti-fascism many have been lost or changed. but due to anti-fascism many have been lost or changed, while remaining fascinated by the Pre-Raphaelite style.

Other works by Guglielmo Ciarlantini are in Sant’Angelo in Pontano, San Giovanni pen, They Piceno, Gualdo, Belforte del Chienti, Tolentino, They reign of Tolentino, San Severino Marche, changing room, Macerata, Corridonia, Francavilla d’Ete Fano, Pesaro, Casal Monferrato and Turin. Numerous portraits of private clients are scattered around. We have certain and documented news of the portrait of Sir Thomas E. Holland and Madame Holland in London and some portraits made in the Roman period.

Who was: Militare
Vita: San Ginesio, 26 November 1894 - Mount Podgora, 24 June 1915
Description: Giovanni Cucchiari was born in a building along via Capocastello by Giuseppe Cucchiari and Augusta Mazzolini il 26 November 1894. Descendant of the Mazzolini family and of general Domenico Cucchiari, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, until he left his studies, almost done, to enlist in the Royal Army in August of 1914. Once he entered, he was included in the 11th "Casale" infantry regiment, from which he passed as a draftsman to the Fortifications Office of Udine. When Italy declared war onAustria-Hungary on 24 May 1915, he joined his regiment at the foot of the hills between Oslavia and Mount Podgora. On 23 June, day of the first battle of the Isonzo, his brigade was placed in the front row but, hampered by the fences and given that the Italian army lacked the appropriate means to deal with them, they sent men with wire cutters and jelly-laden tubes.

Offered voluntarily, Cucchiari joined a patrol that the 24 June, in broad daylight, he tried to open a passage in the thick of the enemy fences, but leaning out of the trenches he was hit by numerous enemy rifle shots, dying instantly during the fight. This action earned him the gold medal for military valor.

To date Cucchiari has received other awards: San Ginesio dedicated the name of a street to him and placed a commemorative slab on the native palace. Roma, instead, dedicated a plate to the M.O.V.M. which shows the motivation of his gold medal.

Who was: Essayist and historian of literature
Vita: San Ginesio, 11 January 1911 - Macerata, 11 April 1998
Description: Of irregular cultural formation, essentially self-taught, interrupted his studies in 1922, he took them back a decade later, becoming in the 1942 owner of Italian letters, Latin and history in the Magistral Institutes. Mayor of San Ginesio since June 1956 to November 1960, he dedicated to school and to literary and historical research, his entire existence, arriving at the presidency of the Liceo-Ginnasio “G. Leopardi” of Macerata and teaching History of Popular Traditions and History of Literary Criticism in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the local University.
Passionate and diligent scholar of the Middle Ages, he was also an attentive and authoritative critic of Foscolo, Parini, Monti, of the romantic age, of local history and literature. A large range of cultural interests cultivated with extreme passion, with methodological rigor and with always renewed enthusiasm.
Among his many contributions to historical and literary studies, a volume, in particular, it emblematically summarizes the liveliness and extension of the author's cultural interests: Literature and History, (Napoli, G. Greco 1992). The book, packed and locked six hundred pages (it includes contributions very far in the years), despite an apparent heterogeneity of contents (it goes from Laurentian rhythm to Middle Ages by Umberto Eco), they are wide-ranging; on the other hand, all of Allevi's writings enjoy a cultural and scientific depth that is hardly questionable if his literary or historical criticism has included the method, the theoretical figure that drives it has been discovered, it has been carefully assessed in working practices that do not neglect any aspect, even marginal, research. And that method, In short, it can be traced back to the documentary need that supports and solidifies the critique of ideas which allow a value judgment without convenient covers, without sagging and camouflage.
Historical or literary, this criticism that comes from afar, from the critique of the ideas of the romantics, from the erudition of the positivists, from the never forgotten lesson of Crociana, is critical of involve, if you want, of to compromise, certain of the total commitment of the critic who claims freedom and autonomy of intellect and conscience, a commodity now rare in today's cultural landscape. A broad argument follows, devoid of the distress of contemporary specialists, enriched and comforted by a cultural ease that reads and interprets documents and facts and apparently distant things, disparate; argument supported by the guiding idea, corroborated by the massive intervention of meticulous bibliographic references, precious, sometimes intrusive and preponderant; the result of many readings: historians and theorists of history, men of letters and literary theorists, artists and art theorists, the small and large, the least and the greatest of erudition and criticism. No page, in the many writings of Febo Allevi, is an exception to this methodological framework which seals the scientific value of the research.
To literature, and to some of his poets in particular, Allevi devoted serious and passionate studies.
Already in 1948 a monographic work, Ugo Foscolo (C.F.L.I.), revealed a particular predilection for authors and works of the romantic area; In the 1955, for New Italy, public Vincenzo Monti, a book in which one advances reading certainly innovative by the poet of Alfonsine, officially far from the romantic fire, “but not insensitive to the jolts of the European soul”. And the Monti delle Lessons from Pavia, will open five years later, the lucky volume Texts of romantic poetics (Marzorati).
In 1965, in the atmosphere of the celebrations for the seventh centenary of Dante's death, Allevi gives the prints a complex and densely articulated volume, With Dante, the Sibyl and others; from the ancients to the vulgar (Scientific and Literary Editions): vast vast panorama of unexpected issues and problems: culti, legends, pre-Roman Italic myths, the advent of the vulgar, the Carte fiastrensi, the knightly tradition, the Act, the Castra song, the Commedia and the Marca d’Ancona and more.
In 1970 Allevi publishes the very rich volume Fortune and legacy of Parini (Monnier) real rediscovery of the poet from Bosisio.
He will conclude his life as a scholar by dedicating to San Ginesio the last book, Liberty and Belle Époque from a provincial viewpoint (1997). A precious book, exquisite, last homage to his native country, narrated within the great warp of European civilization at sunset. A country, si badi, with the history of an era, not with his chronicle; a story where even the marginal or curious annotation reveals in the author's pen the difference between who tells the facts and who instead, in the narration of the facts, reveals and reaffirms values.
Beyond the scholar, remains the discreet man, reserved and shy. Febo Allevi belongs to that group of eminent Marche people who, with the studio, intelligence, the fruitfulness of one's work, fidelity to the inalienable values ​​of tradition, in every age they have honored and made the Picenian region famous.

Who was: Sculptor
Vita: San Ginesio, 3 July 1911 – San Ginesio, 1July 1973
Description: Nino (Giovanni) Patricians was born in San Ginesio on 3 July 1911 by Benigno Patrizi and Tullia Silvetti, owners of a cafe on the main square. In 1918 Nino will lose his father due to the Spanish flu, while the mother, after the death of her husband, will remarry. The young man will draw from these sad family events the disturbances and anxieties that will lead him to alcoholism. Gifted with great artistic sensitivity, he was enrolled, with the help of some relatives, at the School of Art of Tolentino directed by Cesare Marcorelli and it was here that he received his first training. In 1929 he moved to Rome where he was able to deepen his studies in various schools, like the Academy of France and the Academy of San Luca. It was precisely in this Academy that Patrizi won an international prize for the "nude from life" but, despite frequenting many leading artists, he did not bond with any group.

The apprenticeship he will carry out at Alceo Dossena will be decisive for giving birth to his style and for shaping his career: will work in Rome from 1929 to 1942, participating in the restoration of the Ara Pacis, in the Vatican, at the Museum of the Baths, at Palazzo Barberini, to the town hall of Sabaudia, in Ancona, to then return to San Ginesio with his wife Clarice Masci, after getting married in 1937. He worked mainly with private commissions, but he enjoyed the friendship of a few admirers, especially of Tolentino, in addition to teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata. He died in San Ginesio on 1 July 1973.

Who was: Religious
Vita: San Ginesio (Campanelle), 1912 – Roma, February 1969
Description: Isladio Della Vecchia, in religion Father Giovanni, He was born in the hamlet of Campanelle from Enrico and Anna Bordi. It was the third son of a large family: The older brothers, Florindo and Duilio, They were born in Argentina during the father's migration experience, And the firstborn would then become a consular representative of Italy in Santa Fé. Two little sisters died at an early age, while the last of the brothers, Glory, He fell very young as a partisan in 1944, not far from the paternal house.

Isladio soon warned the call of the Lord and chose to enter the Third regular order of the Franciscans of his native country. He completed his gymnasial studies and the year of novitiate at the Seraphic seminar of Sant'Antonio da Padova in Francavilla d’Ete (GRADARA CASTLE). Quickly completed his studies, First in San Ginesio and then in Assisi, where is the 20 January 1935 He was ordained a priest, assuming the name of Father Giovanni.

After the ordination he was appointed prefect of the boys of the Seraphic Seminary of Francavilla. Only two years later he was called to Rome, at the General Curia, like Deputy Parore of the Basilica of Saints Cosma and Damiano. Here he lived the difficult years of the Second World War, mature as a religious and as a man. In those same years he was the spiritual guidance of the Knight Ernesto Apuzzo, supporting him in the birth and development of the Tyrrhenian insurance and capitalization company.

Father Giovanni became a point of reference for that community: amico, Councilor and voice of the Gospel, capable of interpreting the needs of modern man. Always in this spirit he founded the Pax Film Film Company and collaborated with the Minister General of the Order, Father Giovanni Parisi, to the restoration and amusement of the General Curia.

In 1944, In the absence of a parish priest for the church present in his fraction of origin, The current church of San Giovanni Battista, accompanied the family leaders of the area from the parish priest of the Pieve Collegiate, so as to trace the boundaries to erect a new parish in Campanelle.

In 1947 He returned to his religious province as Superior of the Seraphic Seminary of Massa Martana (Perugia), promoting its renovation. The following year he was elected Provincial minister, assignment he held for nine years. In this period the province of new convents and seminars endowed, He opened schools and founded a mission in Paraguay, thus encouraging the other Franciscan provinces to enhance missionary activities, Especially in Latin America.

His most ambitious work was the Return of the third regular order to Milan, where he had been absent for two centuries, From the time of the Giuseppine suppressions. The first contacts with the Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini (future Pope Paul VI) led to the opening of a new parish in the outskirts of the city. On 7 October 1959, In the Cascina Arzaga area, The first provisional structure arose, a wooden shack that became the seat of the new Franciscan community. On 2 June 1960, Year of the twenty -fifth anniversary of his priesthood, Cardinal Montini officially erected the Parish of the patrons of Italy (St. Francis of Assisi and Santa Caterina da Siena), nominating Father Giovanni first provost.

With great determination, Father Giovanni started the construction of the vast parish complex, including the Church, the home of religious, The spaces for the oratory and a modern retired for students and workers. The whole took the name of Oasis of St. Francis, understood as a meeting place and spiritual refreshment in the metropolis. In 1967 The complex was now almost completed, symbol of his courageous vision and his organizational ability.

Always animated by the Franciscan spirit and attentive to the signs of Council 2, Father Giovanni participated in the general chapter of the Order in Rome when, In the February 1969, He was caught by death. The news had ample echo in the press: to its body, composed in the humble saio, they tribute to simple people and authority, including Cardinal Colombo, Archbishop of Milan, who wanted that the founder of the parish was buried in the church of the patrons of Italy. Today his tomb, a raw stone with bas -relief depicting Christ priest between praising angels, remember Father Giovanni Della Vecchia, “He cared for the construction of this house, It was a provost and true guide of the flock, for the greatness of the heart ".

Who was: Priest and missionary
Vita: San Ginesio (Morro Tower), 20 December 1913 – Roma, 9 June 1970
Description: Ordered presbyter in 1937, first he carried out pastoral and training assignments in the diocese of Camerino, also becoming rector of the city seminar. Animated by a strong innovative spirit, introduced modern methods into teaching, such as the use of audiovisual tools and didactic outputs, However, attracting the criticisms of part of the local ecclesiastical authority.

In 1958 Consolated Missions Institute entered the Institute and two years later he left for the Tanzania, where he worked in the diocese of Iringa. Here he dedicated himself to the evangelization and social promotion of local populations, organizing schools, hospitals and agricultural activities. Thanks to its versatility, He also carried out practical roles, from Mugnaio to mechanic, contributing to the growth of communities.

After the death of Bishop Attilio Beltramino, on 17 March 1967 he was appointed Apostolic administrator of Iringa, assignment that maintained up to 1969, When health began to decline due to gastric cancer. He died in Rome the 9 June 1970.

It is remembered as a figure of modern priest, close to people and capable of uniting faith, Pedagogical innovation and missionary spirit.

Who was: Military
Vita: San Ginesio, 25 March 1917 – Kingdom of Montenegro, 7 October 1943
Description: Son of Luigi Focaccetti and Maria Lorenzani, belonging to a family with relevant figures, including a bishop (He also named Focaccetti concept) and a former mayor of the country, Carlo Focaccetti. Raised in the Salesian school, He graduated from the Royal Liceo Ginnasio Tasso in Rome In the 1936 and He continued his studies at the University of Bologna, where he obtained the Degree in Veterinary Medicine on 12 June 1940. He entered the army as official veterinarian pupil In the Pinerolo Cavalry Applications School, The official complement student was promoted on 15 May 1941 and latest complement to 15 July 1941. After a period of service at the deposit of the 32nd artillery regiment of the Infantry Division “Market” and in the 4th quadruped infirmary, on 4 January 1942 He was transferred to the 4th Alpine Regiment, Battalion “Ivrea”, based in Bari.

On 26 March 1943 He was sent to operations in the Balkans, In the border area between Montenegro and Herzegovina. In a letter to the mother, dated 14 August 1943, expressed his profound attachment to the Alpine values ​​and his patriotic spirit, showing the morale and tensions of the troops at that tragic moment. Surrounded after a long resistance, It was captured by the Nazis, and, After refusing to reveal information, The 7 October 1943.

The memory of his sacrifice is still alive today in San Ginesio. In 1955 His remains were finally returned to his hometown and buried in the local cemetery. In his honor, a commemorative plate was placed and a town square was named after him. The local community retains the silver medal for military valor at the headquarters of the Alpine National Association, conferred on its memory, The original document of the motivation and some of his personal memorabilia, including a pipe and a uniform montrine, donated by the nephew and last heir Marta Salvucci. The commemorative slab and the gesture of the Alpini underline the symbolic value of his figure in the memory of the community.

Who was: School official
Vita: San Ginesio, 1929 – Roma, 5 March 1986
Description: Embarked on his career in the public public administration until he became Provider of Macerata studies In the 1971 and, subsequently, of Milan, where his assignment is documented by 12 March 1973 to 28 November 1978.

Provider to the youngest studies in Italy and capable of facing the student contestation thanks to his “Culture and Signority”, In the Milanese years It distinguished itself for the start of numerous school experiments. On 10 October 1975 authorized “experimental” the use of book coupons as an alternative to the textbook e, in the same years, promoted the abolition of differential classes for pupils with disabilities in middle schools, introducing the figure of the support teacher, starting and anticipate then in Milan a model of inclusion of the students who was then received at national level with The innovations introduced by the law 517/77. The Provveditorato under his guide was also active in the prevention of drug addictions and in the field of adult training, taking care of handouts for the courses of 150 hours between the 1976 and the 1980.

In the ministerial field it will hold the role of head of the inspectorate for physical and sporting education.

Suddenly he died in Rome 5 March 1986, the continuation of all the necessary requirements 57 years. After the funerals performed the 6 March in the presence of the Minister of Education, Franca Farcucci, of general directors and ministerial officials, The funeral was carried out in the parish church collegiate by the Mons. Luigi Scuppa, In the presence of the general manager of classical education, Scientific and masterful, Romano Cammarata, and of numerous provinters, principals, and Milanese and Ginesini teachers.

Who was: Bishop and archbishop
Vita: Rapagnano, December 1814 – San Ginesio, 26 September 1889
Description: Focaccetti concept was born in Rapagnano on 8 December 1814, and family originally from San Ginesio. The name was given to him in honor of’Immaculate Conception. He trained in San Ginesio studying religious texts and classical literature; fu ordained priest in 1837 and celebrated the first mass in Santa Maria in Vepretis. Since there were no canonships available, he began his ministry in Rapagnano.

In 1842 he returned to San Ginesio, getting the canonical Vannarelli. In 1845 intervened to save him’Hospital of the Pilgrims, asking Pope Gregory XVI for the union of assets of suppressed pious bodies to support their finances. In recent years it was also de facto municipal councilor (not elected): In the 1846 he dealt with the controversy with Ascoli and Macerata on Faleriense road, reporting the economic damage resulting from the exclusion of the section above Collina after San Ginesio had already paid 40.000 shields.

With the election of Hex, the cardinal Gaetano Baluffi called him to collaborate: after an initial refusal, Focaccetti accepted becoming secretary of the cardinal, while maintaining the canonry and receiving the title of honorary canon of Collegiate Parish Church by the prior Don Antonio Forconi.

On 22 February 1867 he was appointed by Pius IX apostolic administrator of Acquapendente and bishop (consecrated the 10 March 1867 by Cardinal Costantino Patrizi Naro). During the ministry, on 25 July 1880, after the first miraculous event, crowned the Virgin of Mercy by Domenico Malpiedi in the Collegiate Church, event of notable impact on local devotion.

Author and scholar, he collaborated on the periodical The Piceno, he wrote historical and biographical texts (including works on Monte San Pietrangeli, Teresina Leopardi and Cardinal Baluffi), he carried out art studies and took care of the stylistic form of Marian month. He died in San Ginesio the 26 September 1889, and is buried in Fiolce cemetery.

Who was: Patriot and dialectal poet
Vita: Caldarola, 1830 – Roma, 14 September 1900
Description: Alfonso Leopardi was born in Caldarola from original parents of San Ginesio. He graduated in Jurisprudence at the University of Camerino and practiced the notary's profession. He was a great -grandpose of Gian Filippo Leopardi, Secretary of the Ginesina municipality, condemned for the charcoal motion of the 1817. Animated by democratic and patriotic spirit, Alfonso Leopardi approached Risorgimento ideas from a young age.

Already in 1850, little more than twenty years old, After participating in the margins of the Roman constituent of 1849, It was described in an official document as "prejudiced in political line" and "adherent heat of that disorder". Active in the Revolutionary government junta and in the Municipal provisional commission of San Ginesio, After the battle of Castelfidardo (September-October 1860) he was appointed, on 15 October, Lieutenant of the National Guard and member of the subsequent commission, Until the election of the first city council, installed on January 1st 1861.

Over thirty years, from the 1860 to 1893, Leopardi held the position of Municipal Secretary of San Ginesio, defined the "nymph egeria of all the mayors" who succeeded one another in that period. He was the promoter of the new urban planning and numerous innovations that transformed the village into a "modern town, clean, laborious and relatively rich ". Animator of social life, he gave impulse to the birth of the Congregation of Charity, from the Mutual Aid Company, from the Reading and recreation company, from the Philharmonic company and of the Philodramatic company, who brought his name and with whom he organized theatrical performances.

Leopardi made sure that Each national event It was discussed and celebrated in San Ginesio, contributing to the civic education of the population. He entertained relations with the provincial press as a publicist, crediting the image of the country as a dynamic and cultured center. An important episode was the pilgrimage of the 6 June 1875 to the birthplace of Alberico Gentili, which had vast echo in the national and international press. Academicians participated in the initiative, Authority and even Sir Thomas e. Holland from England. In the same year, a International Committee for the monument to Gentili, With honorary president the hereditary prince Umberto di Savoia and actual president the on. Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, Minister of Justice and prominent figure of international law.

On 18 August 1877 The "Giacomo Leopardi" municipal theater. For the occasion, He wrote the operetta booklet Addin, or the wedding in pasquella, Music by the Master Vincenzo Bruti per band. The work, inspired by local customs, he had considerable success and was also represented in nearby theaters, Like the Teatro dell'Aquila di Fermo.

He also wrote other comedies and theatrical works:

• Nosips (Ourselves), comedy in two acts born from the collaboration with the periodical The banner.

• The king of Babylon, comedy in three acts.

• The soma is fixed on the street, comic joke in an act, set in San Ginesio.

• I Promessi Sposi, Theatrical adaptation in six acts, remained unfinished for the author's death.

Skilled speaker and man of culture, It is remembered for the speech pronounced on February 8th 1878 in the collegiate parish church, On the occasion of the Trigism of the death of Vittorio Emanuele II, printed at the expense of the Municipality. In 1892 moved to Roma, where he continued to practice the profession of notary. He died on 14 September 1900. A few months later, on 28 October, in the Rienzi club in Rome, the lawyer Giuseppe Mii he pronounced a commemorative speech, Published in part in the preface to the second edition of its dialectal rhymes.

Leopardi also wrote in the Macerata vernacular. Its Rhymes in the Marche dialect, collected in Under the shell (1887-1891), are considered among the best dialectal productions of the province. A second posthumous edition was published in Montegiorgio in 1902, With a large preface and critical notes. On the occasion of the first centenary of death, the Municipal Library and the Municipality of San Ginesio have published a critical edition of the rhymes, edited by Sandro Baldoncini.

Who is: Painter, creator of the Paintolage technique
Vita: Asti, 24 June 1970
Description: known with the pseudonym Tomas, was born in Asti in 1970. The birth in Piedmont was the consequence of the transfer of parents for work reasons, even if his family roots tie him to San Ginesio, where today lives and works today. Since he was a child he showed a keen interest in art, collecting comics and covering the drawings: From this passion his first relationship with drawing and painting was born. Already at the age of seven-eight he began to paint in oil, developing an autonomous path despite the school.

After the studies at Artistic high school "Cantalamessa" e all’Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, embarked on an artistic career characterized by experimentation and research. In the first period he copied the great masters symbolists and i PREFFAELLITI, by gradually detaching a personal language to mature.

His first pictorial period, going from the exit from studies to 2006 circa, is defined by himself “Vanescent symbolism”. The oil works of this phase have chromatic forms that, depending on the viewer's gaze, suggest different figures, Remembering the visual games of childhood. The creative procedure was instinctive: He began to paint "at random", without project, To arrive only following the final idea. This mode, which recalls surrealist suggestions and in particular Salvador Dalì, makes the period a unicum in the symbolist panorama.

On second period, Starting from 2006/2007, born in the hamlet Campanelle of San Ginesio and takes the name of Paintollage. The technique, conceived by himself and also arises from a moment of personal and economic difficulty, It develops first at Passo San Ginesio, in the former nursery school, through the use of printed paper thrown to the ground together with the color scattered with buckets, per then develop later precisely in Campanelle with drawings at the base of the canvas and the union between painting and printing. The idea was about Add the two materials to reduce waste and create a single language. He finishes paintollage He was coined by a gallery owner of his knowledge. The first picture of this phase is Soldiers. Even in this evolution it does not deny the previous style, carrying out both expressive ways.

His exhibition career of start in the nineties. In 1996 participate for the first time in the International Art Review "G. B. Salvi ”by Sassoferrato with the work Eva. The following year he exhibited at the Festival of the two worlds in Spoleto at the Spazioarte Gallery, while in the 1998 Bring his works to Milan, Rome and in a staff in Villa Boschetti. In the following years there are numerous exhibitions, locals, national and international; 2014, Paris, 2021 a Linz (Austria), 2024 a Singapore, In collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Fermo. Works that the artist does not consider success are often "destroyed", that is, reworked even after years.

His style is distinguished by the use of intense and symbolic colors, for the ability to merge instinct and reflection, randomness and project. With the vanescent symbolism and the Paintollage has developed two parallel languages ​​that dialogue with each other. Is defined as an isolated artist in style, without school, but strongly recognizable.

Permanently exhibits in the elementary school of Passo San Ginesio and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. Furthermore, You can find various works in public places in the municipal area, As in the Isolina restaurant (3 works) and at the central bar (1 opera).

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