New data on Siciliaria septemplicata (R.A. Philippi, 1836) complex (Gastropoda Clausiliidae) from the surroundings of Palermo (NW-Sicily, Italy)

Siciliaria septemplicata (R.A. Philippi, 1836) (Gastropoda Clausiliidae) endemic from northwestern Sicily (Italy) is revised, using shell and genital characters. The diversity of the species complex, the taxonomic history, faunal data and distributional relationships are examined. Siciliaria septemplicata vincentii n. ssp. and S. septemplicata mariastellae n. ssp. from the surroundings of Palermo are here describe

Land molluscs from the Isola delle Femmine Nature Reserve (north-western Sicily, Italy) (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Pulmonata)

The results of a study on the fauna of land molluscs from Isola delle Femmine Nature Reserve (NW Sicily, Italy) (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Pulmonata) are here described. In this small island 23 species have been found, 6 of which are Sicilian endemic taxa. Siciliaria leucophryna microinsularis n. ssp. endemic to the Isola delle Femmine (or Isola di Fuori) is described. For each species ecological, distributional data and information on their presence on this island are provided

New data on slugs and semy-slugs from Cyrenaika (north-eastern Libya) (Parmacellidae, Limacidae, Agriolimacidae, Veronicellidae)

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On some interesting species of the malacological Monterosato collection housed in the ‘Museo di Scienze della Terra’ of Catania

In 2008, the Department of Geological Sciences of the University of Catania (Italy) came into possession of malacological material belonging to the Marquis of Monterosato. The small malacological collection housed at the Department of Geological Sciences of the University of Catania also includes important material belonging to the Abbot Giuseppe Brugnone of Caltanissetta and to the naturalist Pietro Calcara of Palermo. Taxonomical and nomenclatural changes will be provided in the present work based on the above mentioned collections.peer-reviewe

New data on the genus Albinaria (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) from the island of Astypalea and neighboring islets (Dodecanese Archipelago, Greece)

The highly diverse genus Albinaria Vest, 1867 (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) is present in the Dodecanese archipelago with 12 species and 32 subspecies. Species identification is almost exclusively based on shell morphology and recent molecular studies have largely confirmed species classification based on shell morphology. In this communication A. brevicollis astropalia from the South-West of the island is redescribed and discussed in detail.peer-reviewe

Molecular studies on the genus Muticaria (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) from the Maltese Islands

The genus Muticaria Lindholm, 1925 (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) represent xerotolerant and calcicolous mollusks, widespread in central-eastern and southern-eastern parts of Sicily and the Maltese Islands with eight taxa of species or sub-species rank. The present work shows a considerable diversification, even at species level, in populations of Muticaria from Sicily and Malta.peer-reviewe

Shakespeare, Fuseli, and Problems of Visual Representation in Romantic Culture

This article aims at investigating the problem of visual representation, with reference to theatrical conversation pieces, during late 18th century. One of the most visionary painters of the time was Henry Fuseli, an artist who actively participated in the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Fuseli’s paintings show profound ontological problems connected to stage representation, actors identity, and visual imagination, especially when it comes to representation inspired by Shakespeare’s works. This essay sheds light on the relationship between Shakespeare’s characters, the actors impersonating them, and their representations in the paintings of the day

'Poor Susans!\u2019: Wordsworth and the \u2018single(s) in the wide waste'

The essay discusses William Wordsworth\u2019s experience of late-eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London. Through an analysis of some of Wordsworth\u2019s earlier poems to his most renowned description of London in The Prelude, the paper illustrates the ways in which the poet \u2013 both as a writer and as the protagonist of his autobiographical poem \u2013 and the characters of his pomes interact with the urban reality. The essay intends to demonstrate how in Wordsworth\u2019s early poems on London the perception of the urban is often filtered by an active imagination that transmutes actual perception. The natural landscape, thus, becomes a constitutive part of the urban experience. However, this filter becomes with time less and less effective. In the poet\u2019s later description of the city the urban reality assumes realistic tones that the poet is no longer able to transform through his imagination. The creative power of the poet, anesthetised by the jarring urban reality, is only able to associate the city with horrific and infernal worlds, in which people are entrapped and their imagination impaired