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Governa has a very small stock in Alessandria and between Cuneo, Alessandria and Genoa, some presence in the Bolognese and Ravenna areas and in the south-east of Sicily, Governi is typically Tuscan with a stock in the Grosseto area of Seggiano, Grosseto and Manciano, in the San Quirico area of Siena Orcia, Murlo, Siena and Castiglione d'Orcia, and in Florence, Governo has a stock in the Verona area, Verona and San Giovanni Ilarione, presences in Friuli, a small stock in Naples and presences in the Catania area, Guberni, absolutely rare, is specific to Castelnuovo del Garda in the Verona area, all these surnames should derive from the medieval name Guberna, in turn derived from an exhortative form of the verb gubernare (to govern, to drive in the right direction), attributed to children to whom the ability to know how to drive own life towards the good.

Bibliographic source "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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