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Balbi, Adriano (1782 -1848), was an Italian professor of geography at the college of San Michele in Murano; in 1811-1813 he was professor of physics at the Lyceum of Fermo.

In 1820 he visited Portugal and collected material for his Essai statistique sur le royaume de Portugal et d'Algarve, published in Paris in 1822.
In 1826 he published the first volume of his Atlas ethnographique du globe, ou classification des peuples anciens et modernes d'après leurs langues, a work of great erudition. In 1829, with Andre-Michel Guerry, he published Statistique comparée de l'état de l'instruction et du nombre des crimes dans les divers arrondissements des Académies et des Cours Royales de France, the first comparative choropleth map showing crime in relation to level of instruction.
In 1832 the Abrégé de Geographie appeared, which was translated in enlarged form. in the main languages ​​of Europe. Balbi retired to Padua and died there in 1848.

His son, Eugenio Balbi (1812-1884), followed a similar career, as professor of geography at Pavia, and publishing his father's Scritti Geografici (Turin, 1841), and original works in Gea, ossia la terra (Trieste, 1854- 1867) and Saggio di geografia (Milan, 1868).