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Although presented as a medical text the anatomy of melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text and burton addresses far more than his stated subject. This item the anatomy of melancholy by robert burton paperback 499 the praise of folly and other writings norton critical editions by desiderius erasmus paperback 1688 the cambridge companion to renaissance humanism cambridge companions to literature by jill kraye paperback 3438 customers who viewed this item also viewed. Anatomy of melancholy the in full the anatomy of melancholy what it is with all the kindes causes symptomes prognostickes and several cures of it in three maine partitions with their several sections members and subsections philosophically medicinally historically opened and cut up by democritus junior exposition by robert burton published in 1621 and expanded and altered in five subsequent editions 1624 1628 1632 1638 1651 52. The anatomy of melancholy goes quite beyond the titled gloominess to spread melancholy onto a compendium of human conditions complete with symptoms prognostics and the various cures ever known in the western world witches humours charms angels purgatives