Balbi
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People of the Acilii Balbi
- Mount BalbiMount BalbiMount Balbi is a Holocene stratovolcano located in the northern portion of the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is the highest point of the island. There are five volcanic craters along a ridge north of the summit, one of which contains a crater lake. There are numerous fumaroles near...
People of the Acilii Balbi
- Giovanni (or John) Babli (or Johannes Januensis de Balbis)John of GenoaJohn of Genoa or Johannes Balbus was an Italian grammarian and Dominican priest.At an advanced age, John gave away his wealth to the poor of Genoa and entered the Order of St Dominic...
(died ~1298), Italian lexicographer - Francisco Balbi di CorreggioFrancisco Balbi di CorreggioFrancisco Balbi di Correggio , born in Correggio in the province of Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, was an arquebusier who served with the Spanish contingent during the Siege of Malta...
(1505-1589), Italian arquebusier - Lodovico BalbiLodovico BalbiLodovico Balbi was a Venetian singer and composer possibly born around 1545. He died sometime in 1604.-External links:...
(~1545-1604), Italian singer/composer - Lorenzo Balbi (~1680-1740), Italien composer
- Giovanni Battista Balbis (1765-1831), French(?) teacher of Antoine RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
- Adrian BalbiAdrian BalbiAdrian Balbi , Italian geographer, was born at Venice. The publication of his Prospetto politico-geografico dello stato attuale del globo obtained his election to the chair of professor of geography at the college of San Michele at Murano; in 1811–1813 he was professor of physics at the Lyceum of...
(1782-1848), Italian geographer