In September it launched services from Catania to Leghorn, well north of Rome.

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Undeterred, he went to Leghorn (now Livorno) and established a successful medical practice.

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In February 1785 The Times listed opium from Smyrna (now Izmir) between oil from Leghorn (Livorno) and peas from Dantzic (Gdansk) in its roundup of goods unloaded at the port of London.

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