The Spanish connection of "The Anatomy of Melancholy"

Abstract

Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy is an encyclopedia, a summa of knowledge collected from lots of works and auctoritates, classical, medieval and modern authors. His job as a librarian gave him the possibility of reading an enormous quantity of books, some of them English and others of foreign origin. In our paper we are trying to analyse a part of these foreign sources, the Spanish ones. Our goal is to study what kind of Spanish works he read and consulted (scientific, literary, philosophical, etc.), how they are used throughout The Anatomy of Melancholy, and their importance in Burton’s masterpiece. [Texto extraído del artículo de Ana Sáez Hidalgo].