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The reading of Débat de Villon et de son cœur, a piece that deals with the self, depicts an image of the melancholic that is also present in other poems. One might think that this black bile self-portrait prevents an opening up to the world, but Villon's references are not those one expects. They build an ethos that leads the poet to address others and to worry about the society in which he lives. Indeed, the child of Paris links melancholy and anger, like others of his time, somewhat blurring the more authoritative theory of the four temperaments. The figure of Saturn—both a planet of melancholy and a character who dialogues with Solomon in the form of proverbs—embodies a meeting point between the two bilious temperaments and summarizes an image of the self as well as a choice of writing.