Jacques Ferrand was a French physician born in 1575 in Agen, France and died around 1630. Biography
He studied medicine in the south of France. It happened to André Du Laurens in the position that exerted in Montepellier (1558-1609). It is said that Ferrand was a continuator of the melancholic work of this doctor, but already focused on a specific part of the sadness.
For he is famous for his treatise on melancholy, Traicte de l'essence et guerison de l'amour ou de la melancholie erotique (1610), an early psychological work on love sadness. For this work he suffered a trial by the Inquisition, and his book reappeared a dozen years later.
Today is reminded, from the study of Jean Starobinski, precisely for his erotic Melancholy, an informed book (only partly divulging and sometimes anecdotal) that is incorporated among the notable texts dedicated to Melancholy, written at the end of the sixteenth century and early 17th century, culminating with Robert Burton. Bibliography
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