id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6136 Melancholia - Wikipedia .html text/html 3470 481 60 Melancholia (from Greek: µέλαινα χολή melaina chole[1] "black bile", "blackness of the bile"[2] also Latin lugere lugubriousness to mourn, Latin morosus moroseness of self-will or fastidious habit, and old English wist wistfulness of intent or saturnine) is a condition characterized by extreme depression, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions. Melancholy was one of the four temperaments matching the four humours.[3] Until the 19th century, "melancholia" was seen to have physical symptoms as well as mental, and melancholic conditions were classified as such by their perceived common cause an excess of black bile. In an influential[31][32] 1964 essay in Apollo, art historian Roy Strong traced the origins of this fashionable melancholy to the thought of the popular Neoplatonist and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), who replaced the medieval notion of melancholia with something new: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6136.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6136.txt