The title-page quotes some lines from Robert Burton
's Anatomy of Melancholy which begin, When I go musing all alone.
qtd. in
Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley, 1826, 3 vols.
title-page
This is a novel of cosmpolitan culture, set in fifteenth-century Italy. The quotation...
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1621: Robert Burton, a don at Christ Church, Oxford,...
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1621
Robert Burton
, a don at Christ Church, Oxford
, writing as Democritus Junior, published his quirky and learned Anatomy of Melancholy; he kept on adding to it, and left the posthumous sixth...
