BALBI, ADRIAN (1782-1848), Italian geographer, was born in Venice. He was professor of geography at Murano, then of physics at Fermo, and for some years a customs officer in Venice. The years 1821-32 were spent in Portugal. His most important works were Atlas ethnographique du globe . . . (1826), and Abrege de Geographie (1832). His son, EUGENIO BALBI (1812-1884), professor of geography at Pavia, edited his father's Scritti geografici (Turin, 1841) .