BALBO, CESARE, COUNT

(17891853), Ttal. author and statesman; 0b. Turin; served in various capacities under iN apoleon, after whose fall he devoted his energies entirely to his native country. He had no expectation of a truly united Italy, but speculated upon a coniedebatson of states under the papal supremacy; pub. Vita di Dante (1839), and several works advocating Ital. independence. 1517), Span. explorer; of noble birth; began life as an adventurer, and developed into an able general and strator; founded a colony on the Darien Isthmus; discovered the Pacific (1513) ous received from King Ferdinand title of ‘Admiral of the South Sea.’ His brilliant succe es, however, aroused the jealousy of Don Pedro Arias de Avila, the new gov. of the Darien colony, who put forward a false charge against him and secured his execution. W.), seaport and market town, County Dublin, Ireland; hosiery.