This work aims to analize the Latin texts that authors let us about the Aetna’s volcanic activity. Our research stars with some lucretian verses (VI 639-702), follows with other texts of the problematic poem Aetna and ends with two famous passages by Virgilio (Aen. III 570-587) and Ovid (Met. XV 340-355), all in order to know the literary treatment of a scientific matter
