On this day in 1577 Robert Burton was born. Though diverse enough, the title-page of Burton's 1621 masterwork does not give much clue to what lies within, and what has made his book such a classic in the uncategorizable category:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, with all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions. With Their Severall Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up. By Democritus Junior. To Which is Prefixed, A Satyricall Preface, Conducing to the Following Discourse ... FULL STORY »
