The Anatomy of Melancholy

Name: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton

1651 English with a close modern English rendering

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Recorded uses: DJR-080 — homer: Homer, Iliad 18–19, Buckley translation; the shield and Achilles receiving armour.; work/audit-025/sources.json — 080-homer: Homer, Iliad 18–19, Buckley translation.

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Virgil, Georgics 1.417–422, Latin text used to check the weather quotation.

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Plutarch, Dialogue on Love 17; Shilleto translation, the lover’s dangers and Thero’s thumb. Plutarch, Dialogue on Love 17, in Morals; the fighter’s wound. Plutarch, On Love 16, in A. R. Shilleto’s English translation: Galba and Maecenas, followed by Phayllus’s hope of office through Philip. Plutarch, Dialogue on Love 17 Plutarch, Dialogue on Love 17, in Morals Plutarch, On Love 16, in A. R. Shilleto’s English translation

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Boccaccio, Decameron 4.1; Ghismonda and Guiscardo’s heart. Boccaccio, Decameron 5.1; Cymon and Iphigenia, including the later violence. Boccaccio, Decameron 1.3: Melchizedek’s three rings and the unresolved claim. Boccaccio, Decameron 4.1 Boccaccio, Decameron 5.1 Boccaccio, Decameron 1.3

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Recorded uses: DJR-130 — Boccaccio: Boccaccio, Decameron 4.1; Ghismonda and Guiscardo’s heart.; DJR-131 — Boccaccio: Boccaccio, Decameron 5.1; Cymon and Iphigenia, including the later violence.; DJR-162 — boccaccio: Boccaccio, Decameron 1.3: Melchizedek’s three rings and the unresolved claim.; work/audit-042/sources.json — 130-Boccaccio: Boccaccio, Decameron 4.1; work/audit-042/sources.json — 131-Boccaccio: Boccaccio, Decameron 5.1; work/audit-053/sources.json — 162-boccaccio: Boccaccio, Decameron 1.3.

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Machiavelli, Florentine Histories 5.1, public-domain English text: the cycle of order, prosperity and ruin. Machiavelli, Florentine History, book 7: Cosimo de’ Medici’s changing fortunes. Machiavelli, Florentine Histories 5.1, public-domain English text Machiavelli, Florentine History, book 7

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Recorded uses: DJR-091 — Machiavelli: Machiavelli, Florentine Histories 5.1, public-domain English text: the cycle of order, prosperity and ruin.; DJR-092 — Machiavelli: Machiavelli, Florentine History, book 7: Cosimo de’ Medici’s changing fortunes.; work/audit-029/sources.json — 091-Machiavelli: Machiavelli, Florentine Histories 5.1, public-domain English text; work/audit-029/sources.json — 092-Machiavelli: Machiavelli, Florentine History, book 7.

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James VI and I, Daemonologie, book 1, chapter 3, magicians and witches.

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Plutarch, Table Talk 7.5.1: music and intoxication; historical English translation, Project Gutenberg. Plutarch, Non posse, section 16: women in the Epicurean garden; historical English translation, Project Gutenberg. Plutarch, Table Talk 8.1: celebrations of Socrates and Plato; English translation, contextual comparison. Plutarch, Table Talk 1.5; English translation, love, poetry and softened character. Plutarch, Table Talk 7.5.1 Plutarch, Non posse, section 16 Plutarch, Table Talk 8.1 Plutarch, Table Talk 1.5

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About This Reading Edition

Robert Burton’s Anatomy ranges across medicine, philosophy, poetry, religion, and everyday life in its inquiry into melancholy. This complete parallel edition pairs the 1651 English text with a close modern English rendering, preserving the three Partitions, Democritus Junior’s address to the reader, verse, and the historical index.

Historical Text and Translation

The historical text follows the sixth edition, printed at Oxford for Henry Cripps in 1651, using the McGill University Library copy. The supplied edition documents missing printed pages 98–99 supplied from another 1651 copy at the Bavarian State Library. Historical folio labels and their irregularities remain visible; web reader numbers identify reflowed passages and do not claim to reproduce PDF pagination.

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