Some anatomies of melancholy
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Some anatomies of melancholy
（Penguin books, . Great ideas ; 42）
Penguin, 2008
- : pbk
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Contents of Works
- Of the matter of melancholy
- Of the species or kinds of melancholy
- Causes of melancholy : God a cause
- A digression of the nature of spirits, bad angels, or devils, and how they cause melancholy
- Old age a cause
- Parents a cause by propagation
- Bad diet a cause : substance. quality of meats
- Quantity of diet a cause
- Love-melancholy
- Love's beginning, object, definition, division
- Cause of love-melancholy, sight, beauty from the face, eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth
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Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of the human condition.
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