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Livorno

Livorno, sometimes in English Leghorn, (population 170,000) is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy.

An important area under the Medici in the Renaissance with many important landmarks from the 16th century, Livorno was enlarged at the end of the 18th century by Leopold II, who also opened the city to foreign merchants. It was a free port from 1675 until 1860, when it became part of the Kingdom of Italy.

'Livorno is the birthplace of:'\

• Mario Ancona (1860-1931), opera baritone
• Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), painter
• Giorgio Caproni (1912-1990), poet
• Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born 1920), statesman
• Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), fascist politican
• Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), painter
• Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (1804-1873), writer and politician
• Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), opera composer
• Matteo Mazzantini (born 1976), star rugby player
• Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), great painter and sculptor
• Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885), financier, philanthropist in Britain
• Alfredo Muller (1869-1940), artist
• Angiolo Tommasi (1858-1923), artist

There is a breed of chicken called leghorn, named after the city. This in turn gave its name to the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn.

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