LIVORNO

lē vôrˈnô, Brit. Leghorn, city (1991 pop. 167,512), capital of Livorno prov., Tuscany, central Italy, on the Ligurian Sea and on the Aurelian Way. It is a busy commercial, industrial, and tourist center and is one of the most important ports of Italy. Manufactures include refined petroleum, iron, steel, aluminum, copper, metal minerals, chemicals, ships, vehicles, machinery, and electrical equipment. The city has major shipyards and a fishing industry. A fortified castle in the Middle Ages, Livorno was developed (16th cent.) into a flourishing city by the Medici. In 1590, Ferdinand I, grand duke of Tuscany, made it a free port and opened it to all religious and political refugees. The city was badly damaged in World War II. Points of interest include the cathedral (16th cent., restored after 1945) and the remains of the 17th-century city wall. The Italian naval academy is there.

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books on: Livorno  - 689 results

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The Jews in Genoa - Vol. 2
Book by Rossana Urbani, Guido Nathan Zazzu; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Genoa (Italy)--Ethnic Relations--Sources, Jews--Italy--Genoa--History--Sources, Judaism--History--Medieval And Early Modern Period, 425-1789
...On Mose Cassuto (Cafsuto), see Toaff, Livorno e Pisa, p. 705. 962 Genoa, 25 April...On David Mordecai Darmone, see Toaff, Livorno c Pisa, p. 470. 1069 Genoa, 19 June...Bibliograpby: On Mos? Ferrera, see Toaff, Livorno e Pisa, p. 711. 1082 Genoa, 24 March...
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Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the World of Maritime Empires (1540-1740)
Book by Jonathan I. Israel; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Jews--History--70-1789, Marranos--History--16th Century, Marranos--History--17th Century, Sephardim--History--16th Century, Sephardim--History--17th Century
...Portuguese seaborne empire to Antwerp, Livorno, Venice and European commerce as a whole...northern Europe, confirming Venice and Livorno as the main focus of crypto-Jewish 18...resources of western Europe, Amsterdam and Livorno but not London were increasingly the...
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The Jews of Rhodes: The History of a Sephardic Community
Book by Marc D. Angel, Solomon Gaon; Sepher-Hermon Press, 1980
Subjects: Jews--Greece--Rhodes (Island)--History, Rhodes (Greece : Island)--History, Sephardim--Greece--Rhodes (Island)--History
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Scholars, Travellers, and Trade: The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840
Book by R. B. Halbertsma; Routledge, 2003
...inheritance 87 7 Station Livorno: the Etruscan and Egyptian collections 89...of the Egyptian collection of DAnastasy, which was sold in Livorno to the Dutch government for 113,000 guilders. 4 The lack...
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Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740
Book by Jonathan I. Israel; Clarendon Press, 1989
Subjects: Netherlands--Commerce--History, Netherlands--History--1648-1795, Netherlands--History--Wars Of Independence, 1556-1648
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journal articles on: Livorno  - 45 results

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Perspectives of Nineteenth-Century Italian Jewry
Journal article by Elizabeth Mahler Schachter; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Antisemitism--Religious aspects, Italian Jews--History, Jews, Italian--History, Jews--Emancipation, Jews--History, Zionism--Social aspects
...contact between Jew and non Jew, and in Livorno, one of the largest communities, a ghetto...leading figure of the Haskalah, visiting Livorno in 1769, noted with satisfaction that...Luzzatis edited volume on the Jews of Livorno, largely based on interviews, the picture...
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On Gramsci
Journal article by Joseph A. Buttigieg; Daedalus, Vol. 131, 2002
Subjects: Democratic Party of the Left (Italy)--Analysis, Democratic Party of the Left (Italy)--History, Gramsci, Antonio--Criticism and interpretation, Gramsci, Antonio--History, Gramsci, Antonio--Political activity, Gramsci, Antonio--Works
...journalist and as a leader of Turins insurgent factory council movement, Gramsci joined a walkout at a Socialist congress in Livorno and helped to found the Italian Communist Party, subsequently representing the party as a member of Parliament. In 1926, four...
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Becoming Jewish in Early Modern France: Documents on Jewish Community-Building in Seventeenth-Century Bayonne and Peyrehorade
Journal article by David Graizbord; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: French Jews--History, Jewish history--17th century AD, Jews, French--History, Jews--17th century AD, Jews--History, Social history--Analysis, Social sciences and history--Analysis
...expatriate identified yet another envoy, one Abraham ben Israel from Livorno or Amsterdam, who had also served as a mohel in Saint Esprit...practiced rabbinic Judaism in the Jewish communities of Rome and Livorno, and hence "was said to know more about the Law of Moses than...
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Italy's Other Left
Journal article by Renato Brunetta; Daedalus, Vol. 130, 2001
Subjects: Italy--Politics and government, Political parties--Analysis, Right and left (Political science)--Analysis
...the Italian Communist Party, a political party founded in Livorno on January 21, 1921. Partito Democratico di Sinistra (PDS...Northern League and MP since 1987. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (b. Livorno, 1920): current president of the Italian Republic. He was governor...
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From Gray's Elegy to Foscolo's Carme: Highlighting the Mediation and Sublimation of the 'sepulchral'
Journal article by Antonio Illiano; Symposium, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...laggiunta di varie cose finora inedite , by Alessandro Torri (Livorno: Tip. Migliaresi, 1817, 1843 ), which included the Italian...Pindemonte " in his Discussioni e ricerche letterarie (Livorno, 1888 ), and the annotations to Pindemontes work in Lirici...
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Sir Robert Dudley: Duke of Northumberland: This Swashbuckling Chancer Lived Two Lives, the First English, the Second Italian. Raymond E. Role Chronicles the Chameleon Career Which Ranges from Elizabethan Privateer, Explorer and Courtier to Stuart Expatriate, Religious Renegade, Shipbuilder, Architect, Inventor, Engineer, Cartographer and Paterfamilias
Magazine article by Raymond E. Role; History Today, Vol. 53, March 2003
Subjects: Dudley, Robert--History, Explorers--History, Naval history
...building warships at the Tuscan arsenal at Livorno, as a naval advisor to the duke with a...In 1587 Grand Duke Ferdinand had made Livorno the only free port on the Italian peninsula...stateless privateers and free-booters. Livorno had also become the main base for the...
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'Gutter' Politics: Playing the Name Game
Magazine article by Jay Nordlinger; National Review, Vol. 54, November 11, 2002
Subjects: English language, Pronunciation, Second languages
...though, draw the line at "Leghorn": I say Livorno. But this puts me at odds with Winston...in 1941, "If you approve I should like Livorno to be called in the English-Leghorn...conversing agreeably with Mussolini in Italian, Livorno would be correct." This is the same Churchill...
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Modigliani at the Royal Academy
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 288, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Modigliani, Amedeo--Criticism and interpretation, Modigliani, Amedeo--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Exhibitions
...subordinated bodily proportions to the shapeliness of his pictures; from Tuscany, where Modigliani had been born in Leghorn (Livorno), the outstretched waists and pelvic slants of Botticelli; from the ancient republic of Siena, the narrow obliquity of eyes...
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Body and Soul
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 279, July 19, 2004
Subjects: Jewish Museum (New York, New York)--Exhibitions, Modigliani, Amedeo--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions
...and very moving show of Modigliani--a Sephardic Jew born in Livorno in 1884--now on view in its second-floor galleries (until September...underwent a true academic training in Florence, Venice, Rome and Livorno but continued to believe in the virtues of traditional painting...
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Why Tuscany Hates Blair: The PM Needs to Find a New Holiday Destination. He Is No Longer Welcome in Chiantishire
Magazine article by Hilary Clarke; New Statesman, Vol. 132, March 24, 2003
Subjects: Anglo Italian Summit, Berlusconi, Silvio, Blair, Tony, Italy, Peace movements, Prime ministers--Foreign relations
...train-stoppers", the peace activists have been trying to block the trains carrying weapons, and dockers at the nearby port of Livorno have been refusing to unload military cargoes. Around 40,000 people demonstrated at the base on 8 March, and more protests...
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Fanaticism and Anarchy Await in Volatile Livorno; Hostility Guaranteed as Rangers Travel to Italy's Communist Capital
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 15, 2006
Subjects: UEFA Cup (Soccer)
...Fanaticism and Anarchy Await in Volatile Livorno; Hostility Guaranteed as Rangers Travel...tranquillity of Molde comes the anarchy of Livorno. Rangers may have stumbled their way through...the capital of Italian anarchists. AS Livorno is a symbol for so much more than football...
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Football: Mad Livorno Chief Would Axe le Guen; UEFA CUP COUNTDOWN.
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 18, 2006
Subjects: Professional soccer, UEFA Cup (Soccer)
Football: Mad Livorno Chief Would Axe le Guen; UEFA CUP COUNTDOWN...David Murray not to copy trigger-happy Livorno chairman Aldo Spinelli and give Paul...now an agent and TV pundit, reckons Livorno will win tomorrow night - but he insists...
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Football: THEY CAN LIV WITH BEST; Amo's Warning to His Old Mates over Italian Rookies LIVORNO V RANGERS Thursday, Kick-Off 7.45pm Live BBC 1
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), October 15, 2006
Subjects: Champions League, UEFA Cup (Soccer)
...to His Old Mates over Italian Rookies LIVORNO V RANGERS Thursday, Kick-Off 7.45pm Live...By GAVIN BERRY LORENZO AMORUSO watched Livorno match AC Milans superstars last month...Armando Picchi Stadium. But while its Livornos first venture into Europe, Amo warned...
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Football: THE UEFA CUP DRAW; RANGERS LAND PARTIZAN BELGRADE ... LIVORNO... AUXERRE AND MACCABI HAIFA
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 4, 2006
...DRAW; RANGERS LAND PARTIZAN BELGRADE ... LIVORNO... AUXERRE AND MACCABI HAIFA. GROUP...RANGERS (SCOTLAND) PARTIZAN BELGRADE (SERBIA) LIVORNO (ITALY) MACCABI HAIFA (ISRAEL) THURSDAY, OCT 19: Livorno vs. Rangers, Maccabi Haifa vs. Auxerre...
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Docking with la Bella Macchina Docking with la Bella Macchina; PORT SIDE: The Old Fortress Dominates the Harbour in Livorno QUAY TO THE HIGHWAY: The Ventura, Top, and Frank with Hired Ferrari
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 3, 2008
Subjects: Automobile industry
...Old Fortress Dominates the Harbour in Livorno QUAY TO THE HIGHWAY: The Ventura, Top...contingent of locals from the port of Livorno who seemed to emerge suddenly from nowhere...available to cruise passengers calling at Livorno used to be limited to a quick look at...
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encyclopedia articles on: Livorno  - 9 results

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Livorno
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIVORNO le vor no, Brit. Leghorn, city (1991 pop. 167,512), capital of Livorno prov., Tuscany, central Italy, on the Ligurian Sea and...fishing industry. A fortified castle in the Middle Ages, Livorno was developed (16th cent.) into a flourishing city by the...
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Leghorn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LEGHORN see Livorno , Italy. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Modigliani, Amedeo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MODIGLIANI, AMEDEO amade o modelya ne, 1884 1920, Italian painter, b. Livorno. In Paris after 1906, Modigliani first worked as a sculptor and was influenced by cubism and African art. Soon, however, he...
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Guerrazzi, Francesco Domenico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GUERRAZZI, FRANCESCO DOMENICO franchas ko do-ma neko gwar-rat tse, 1804 73, Italian patriot and writer, b. Livorno. A radical republican and nationalist, he was repeatedly imprisoned for his activities in the Risorgimento . He became minister...
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Trelawny, Edward John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRELAWNY, EDWARD JOHN 1792 1881, English adventurer. A friend of Byron and Shelley , he was at Livorno when Shelley was drowned, and later served with Byron in the Greek War of Independence. He wrote Recollections of the Last Days...
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