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Two Atlantic species of Leptochiton, Leptochiton sarsi Kaas, 1981 and Leptochiton pepezamorai Carmona Zalvide, Urgorri & Garcia, 2004, were found in the Tuscan Archipelago, at the Santa Lucia Bank. This area, between the Corsica and the Gorgona Island, is characterized by extensive white corals and hard bottom biocenosis extending from 125 to 800 m, which is particularly rich in molluscs. The two species were found looking over a great amount of old detritus from a depth estimated near 500 m. The study of L. sarsi (compared with some Atlantic specimens) and of Leptochiton pepezamorai permits us to better define some morphological features of these species, not well characterized in the original description. The collection of these Atlantic species in the Mediterranean Sea extends to 34 the number of species of Polyplacophora present in this area.

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From opening books to read them, through the continuous effort at opening one’s heart to God, to the eventual disclosure of God’s mysteries to human beings, Augustine seems to trace an implicit conceptualization of openness in his Confessions. The words of Matthew 7. 7–8 underlie Augustine’s engagement with openness up to the very last sentence of the book, which ends with a sequence of verbs in the passive voice that culminates with the desired manifestation of the divine. The entire endeavour of opening oneself up undertaken in the Confessions aims at this final passive openness, which is (always) yet to come as much as human opera are (always) yet to come to completion.