Why Robert Burton’s masterpiece speaks to our pandemic age

[pepys]

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/four-hundred-years-of-melancholy-why-robert-burtons-masterpiece-speaks-to-our-pandemic-age

[epilys]

This year in a bout of melancholy boredom I started typesetting Anatomy of Melancholy in LaTeX with the goal of releasing it under a free software license and the pdf under creative commons. I still haven't finished all the little details to consider it done but I've uploaded some page spreads here if anyone wants to check it out: https://nessuent.xyz/posts/2021-04-19_anatomy_of_melancholy....

Draft PDF is here https://epilys.github.io/anatomy-of-melancholy-latex

[j7ake → epilys]

That is super cool! I tried to click on the RSS link to get updates but I get an error when it tries to auto open in Feedly.

Apart from that looks super cool!

[epilys → j7ake]

Thank you :)

Re: the feeds, it passes w3c validators:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fep...

Does the error say what the problem is?

[j7ake → epilys]

I was using my phone and clicking the RSS button. It looks like it uses the link “ feed:https://epilys.github.io/anatomy-of-melancholy-latex/feed.rs... . I managed to fix this by removing the “feed:” prefix to the link.

Subscribed now thanks!

[homarp → epilys]

it looks very nice.

[goodmachine → homarp]

Wonderful work, thank you for doing this.

[dang]

See also

My Mistress Melancholy: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy - https://aeon.co/essays/robert-burton-lived-and-died-for-his-...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22430219 - Feb 2020 but no comments)

[twobitshifter]

Link on Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10800/10800-h/10800-h.htm