Iconography of the Natural History of the Madonie

It is an extraordinary scientific work, comprising over 500 coloured plates, on the nature of the Madonie, which Minà Palumbo painted
between 1836 and 1859. There are described hundreds of plants (200 tables), birds (191 tablets) , reptiles, amphibians, insects, terrestrial
molluscs.

The work, a combination of culture, art and science, as a result of the work of the same mind, embraces the nature of nowledge of the time in which it was processed. The four volumes that make up the work are a valuable essay on the biodiversity of the Madonie, a territorial and environmental system among the richest not only in Sicily but also in the rest of the Mediterranean basin.