Francisco Balbi di Correggio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrancisco Balbi di Correggio
Italian writer
Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1505
Place of Birth: Correggio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Date of Death: 12-Dec-1589
Profession: writer, military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Francisco Balbi di Correggio
- Francisco Balbi di Correggio (16 March 1505 – 12 December 1589), 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.
- Little is known about him other than that he maintained a journal throughout the siege, which he afterwards published. Balbi's is the best-known eyewitness account of the siege (there is at least one other, in the form of a long poem by the knight Hipolito Sans), and all subsequent histories rely heavily upon it, including that of Giacomo Bosio, the official historian of the Knights of St.
- John, whose massive account first appeared in 1588. Balbi's journal, apparently with some revisions after the fact, was first published in Spain in 1567.
- A second revised and extended edition was published in 1568.
- The first English translation appeared in 1961 by Henry A.
- Balbi.
- Another, less literal translation with some cuts was made by Ernle Bradford in 1965.
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