# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-balbi-di-correggio
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:02:53.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-balbi-di-correggio"
name: "Francisco Balbi di Correggio"
slug: "francisco-balbi-di-correggio"
description: "Francisco Balbi di Correggio, born in Correggio in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, was an arquebusier who served with the Spanish contingent during the Great Siege of Malta. Little is known about him other than that he maintained a journal throughout the siege, which he afterwards published."
tagline: "Italian writer (1505-1589)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_Balbi_(1567)_La_verdadera_relaci%C3%B3n_de_lo_sucedido_en_1565_en_la_Isla_de_Malta.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1505-03-16"
deathDate: "1589-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.61
  momentum:             6
  historical:           7.406264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Balbi_di_Correggio"
    title: "Francisco Balbi di Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Balbi_di_Correggio"
    title: "Francesco Balbi di Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Balbi_di_Correggio"
    title: "Francisco Balbi di Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Balbi_da_Correggio"
    title: "Francesco Balbi da Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Balbi_di_Correggio"
    title: "Francesco Balbi di Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Balbi_di_Correggio"
    title: "Francisco Balbi di Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Balbi_da_Correggio"
    title: "Francesco Balbi da Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Balbi_di_Correggio"
    title: "Francesco Balbi di Correggio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1440912"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump