Melancholia was directed by a Danish screenwriter.
 Another major English author who made extensive expression upon being of an melancholic disposition is Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (1643)
 In an influential 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 (14331499), who replaced the medieval notion of melancholia with something new: Ficino transformed what had hitherto been regarded as the most calamitous of all the humours into the mark of genius

