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curiosity number 038 Luigi Giannelli Music on the shells     The coloring of the Voluta musica (Linnaeus 1758) configures the images almost identical to the pages of old books antiphonaries in church choirs, and the background color is ivory as the ancient scrolls, on which series of lines and dots give the appearance of writing music, especially when the notes were still marked with squares and lines were only four. Species typical of the south-eastern Caribbean, was discovered more than three centuries ago, when the Jesuits went to catechize the Americas, they brought some specimens in Rome for their Kircherian Museum, where they gathered the curiosity (natural or not) from all over the tranquil already been the director of the museum, Father Philip Buonanni, in 1681, to describe it thus: "Music Snail rightly said, having the nature of four lines, which with a double order the wrap, splash splashes and droplets, sorted by the distance between them, and sizes, so that many notes of the song appear.".