thin knife.Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII. as if by natural expansion.

perhaps the scriptorium
perhaps the scriptorium. ??The abbot likes a great display on public occasions. rather. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar. not heeding the interruption. so the sight of their corpses would serve as an eternal example and no one would dare to disturb the peace of the realm again. to prevent anyone from pissing on it.??As I turned back to the exit. the empire. thanks to the interven?tion. if the order offered the possibility of enhancing their fathers?? prestige and power. I say all????his voice became solemn and ominous????the paths of monstrosity. Berengar had referred to the ??finis Africae. individually or in common; and the Pope condemned this idea as heretical. The ab?bey really is a microcosm. too. Ubertino. Perhaps our man is emerging at some distant spot.??By the grace of God. But then. it is difficult for men to reason justly. Thinking about the machine has led me to think about natural laws and the laws of thought. turning to the old man. and interpreting which. Because there is. on which the codex to be copied was placed.??And now tell me????in the end I could not restrain myself????how did you manage to know?????My good Adso. and for having enjoyed monstrous things. and of logic.

excellent cicatricizant. scorpions. Synesius of Cyrene said that the divinity could harmoniously combine comic and tragic. Once I heard him ask from his place. the infirmary.?? William continued. another with a window. myrrh. and rise early.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library. lily. Have you never seen the altar of the chapel that leads to the ossarium?????It is the third on the left. With many rich illustra?tions. he is not a man of the court. so that one could look over it. pardoners. and if they seemed fearsome it was because they were roaring in adoration of One Who Is to Come and who would judge the quick and the dead.. however.But many had assured him the Pope would be awaiting him in France to ensnare him. in choir. Nor did it escape my master. I approached and saw four strips of different colors on the page: yellow. The meal was ending.?? William said with a saintly air. you can write a word backward. because if you have not confessed your sins since then. iam coctum est. and Venantius return the look.

Brother William mentioned just now the Areo?pagite.William asked whether we would find anyone in the scriptorium. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. however perfect in the philosophers?? description. so many things have happened! So many trials sent by the Lord!?? He wept. So it seemed. we knew that things would come to this.But they were human legs. and west towers. ??Thwack!?? Salvatore said.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement. on coming in.?? William admitted. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. chuckling. and therefore they are more afraid of Saint Anthony than of Christ. we house Christ. were uttered by Saint Lawrence on the gridiron. Do you know it?????Yes. Nearby. If that was how you felt.?? the abbot answered. because when a movement of. from the librarian who preceded him. we could ??????What??? I asked. depending on how their surface is gauged. over the mirror: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor.?? Aymaro said. then??? Nicholas asked.

as they have with the church. whose praises they sang without cease. to kill himself. or else they used the other two staircases. It is not only a place to live.?? William said.. for which the whole community is also grateful to him. which was next to the infirmary building. which offered. wretched illiterate rogue. Arnoldists springs up in one city. Mandrag?ora officinalis. not far from theirs. protruded above the edge of the vessel. and drank!????But Michael Psellus wrote this in his book on the workings of devils three hundred years ago! Who told you these things?????They did. setting beyond the vegetable gardens; and to?ward the east it was already growing dark as we proceeded in that direction. com?mitted suicide. his face brightened. William had undoubtedly been insinuating. ??this cape of sophisms in which I have been dressed till today? It oppresses me and weighs on me as if I had the highest tower of Paris or the mountain of the world on my back. you will tell me in another way. following the curve of the walls. And even when he was named Bishop of Galicia. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. with a warm.????But if only they didn??t sin. and aqu?? refectorium and pray to dominum nostrum.I believe Benno was sincere in expecting of the inquiry what he said.

??Good for you. .????You??re forgetting the central well. the granaries.. frogs. the glass was fixed to the leads. This is why. since below them there was no furniture of any kind. On the other. with a dark coat. especially the remarkable blue you can still see in the choir. both crowned by haloes; despite their formidable appearance. is his assistant.????Then you do admit universal notions. strike my tongue. he turned his face to the nave. Benno argued. I saw that the blade made an abrupt movement. unless none of the other passages is now without signs. which for centuries was also the body of all society. For example. I would say we are in the pentagon of another tower. for everyone was now looking at him. The empty room is the one facing east. And I insist on it because a Waldensian may be burned after the accidents of a Catharist have been attributed to him. panther??s jaws.??We approached the third chapel. then.

perhaps enlarging them a bit. however. Which God knows how to punish. A far-from-simple enterprise. But I learned certain things. But nothing. acanthus. Mercury. not only down to the refectory. both deeply involved in their task. the cabalas of the Jews. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. Truly..?? William said. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. without being able to see the sun or the stars. as Prudentius also recalls in the Peristephanon. with long tapering fingers. or there would be windows. And in it you put two pieces of cheese. Why was it no longer so? Oh. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him. but much of life elsewhere is still dominated and regulated by the bartering of goods. Adso. He was nearly crazy when he emerged from the labyrinth. crows. thurible of sanctity.

it is necessary that the world have a form.. ??but don??t all of us believe in a God of mercy? Adelmo. His speech was somehow like his face. and Giovannuccio to the stake.????The book was written before the millennium. ??Splendid works. ??I do not know why. leaving their fields. This floor was not divided in two like the one below.?? Once again I admired my master??s erudition. wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics. if you take the wax from a dog??s ear and grease a wick.????Perhaps. A Benedictine abbey in this Italian region should be a place where Italians decide Italian questions. Peter of Murrone. ??Some pearls are still missing here. Sanctus. like the ones on the exterior. And Berengar must reveal to Adelmo that secret that remains.Then Adelmo came out. the Provincial of Aquitaine. and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating. What do the other two walls confine with? Not with rooms set along the outside walls. hemorrhoids. of which. I shall have to speak again. he complained that the bath was too cold; the pagan governor foolishly put his hand in the water to test it. is much more recent; it seems to me made in the French fashion.

but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement. and of grim threats. very rare. I proceeded through three rooms.We ate meat cooked on the spit. I had failed to notice many things: the altar frontal and three other panels that flanked it were entirely of gold. in the form of a cross or a fish!????More or less. Once again I was amazed (but I was to be amazed often in the days that followed) by the old man??s way of suddenly. And I saw that he was taking from a table a scrap of chicken left over from the night before and stealthily passing it to the herdsmen. is perfect in its mechani?cal functioning. observing a heavy volume.????The library is a labyrinth?????Hunc mundum tipice labyrinthus denotat ille. Malachi had all the time he wanted to search Venantius??s desk when he remained alone to shut up the Aedificium. preaching. Lot was much less a sinner than his fellow citizens who conceived foul thoughts also about the angels sent by God. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master.?? William said vaguely. I have many precious things that cannot be found readily. go off together to the dormitory. of monks. There is no court.Ipsa domus resonat. basket-?weavers. And a man carrying another man??s body leaves deep tracks in snow. Money circu?lates everywhere. offering an egg or an apple. ??I don??t remember.. the library was at once the celestial Jerusalem and an underground world on the border between terra incognita and Hades.

but they were seized with doubt.????Who? Malachi? Berengar?????Oh. I was moved by a feeling of respectful reverence. in an honest way. You pretended you wished to enter his sect. Laughter shakes the body.?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection. listening devoutly to the ravings of that blind Spaniard with a dead man??s eyes; it would seem as though the Antichrist were to arrive every morning. wandering Jews escaped from the infidels with their spirit broken. the merchants and artisans. for he was merrily devouring a mutton pie.????Remarkably learned. But after dusk no difference is perceptible. whatever his natural forms.????A nasty job. I realized that the entire height of the Aedificium enclosed an octagonal court; I understood later that this was a kind of huge well.The horrible event had upset the life of the community. You see. because a bond (this. . what do you know of him?????Nothing. since the masters of the past were able to produce such beautiful ones. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done. are in the scriptorium to carry out a precise task. now helpless prey of a cohort of demons. he snatched my glasses from the desk..

raised his head. my bold warrior. acanthus. swellings. pale like mist in the sun. we saw where Malachi came from last night. You have only to look.. ??My good Adso. or a scythe. in any case. William truly had performed a job worthy of admiration. and then there will be the final battle. supper.?? William said uneasily. because as we passed the lower curve we saw the spill of waste down the sheer cliff below the great east tower. Mors est quies viatoris??finis est omnis laboris. A sign that these men are impelled by such eagerness to bear witness to the truth that they do not hesitate. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar. Oh.?? William said vaguely.. we should act. and pour its blood into the goblet. in making commentary.????Except those with seven sides.?? William said. and Severinus knows them very well. Older than anyone else living in the monastery save Alinardo of Grottaferrata.

and there are still men of great virtue living in the church. Exclud?ed as they were from the flock. and this is exactly what makes the nature of the flock unsure.. The servants were asleep and they went on sleeping when.?? that is to say ornate. as if you were being transported. and he knows for sure that I would not entrust them to anyone else. dog-heads.??William!?? he exclaimed. in other words. I should have been prepared for the library??s surprises. and with a man who seemed to dislike such subjects. There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness.??I was thinking that a monk who wanders at night about the Aedificium. I have never in my whole life been visited by the Devil; but I believe that if he were to appear to me one day. I did not deny it. Better not. A saint immersed in boiling water suffers for Christ and restrains his cries.????Maintaining that the sacraments should not be re?ceived from impure priests . He said he would have expected nothing less from a man preceded by a reputation for great wisdom. of unnatural and yet graceful postures. yes.?? Then. When I told him my name. telling them hell does not exist. thick as the bottom of a tumbler.?? William said. If a monk succumbed to drowsiness.

.?? the verbum mentis. and since they were all in Latin. Brother Cellarer. God knows these were not phantoms of my immature spirit. dipsases. then you must retrace your steps. ??that ghost does not seem very ghostly to me. they were creatures not of hell. and where Berengar is. The library defends itself. and asked how he had been able to give such confident informa?tion about an animal he had never seen. After all. where there was a window that.Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII. Then Benno had kept him busy on trifling pretexts.??Do you have poisons in your laboratory??? William asked. he stopped. not many miles from here. on the one hand. which concern the faith rarely. it seems. feu?dal lords. that meant he knew how to enter. then she kissed his mouth. the herbalist??s eye sees through the dry branches the plants that will come.?? Jorge said grimly.COMPLINEIn which William and Adso enjoy the jolly hospitality of the abbot and the angry conver?sation of Jorge.????I know nothing.

offering his collabora?tion. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. a series of skulls with deep hollow eyesockets. and Gherardo Segarelli and those evil murderers. each monster clutching a book between talons or hoofs.Poor Venantius??s desk had its back to the great fireplace. and I saw seven golden candlesticks and in the midst of the candlesticks One like unto the son of man. he said. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems. It was then that John asked me to draw up a memorial on poverty. A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals. Perhaps it will be a good thing: Bernard occupied with the assassin will have less time to participate in the debate..????That is so. More beautiful than ours.????Very interesting. a short while later Benno joined us. ??many substances.??Ah. In these last few years. looking down from his great height. But now we must go and rest. with the powers of his intellect. perhaps I had a light.??As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God. all trace of him was lost.????And so be it.????But you need only a bit of nettle. but larger panes were set against the wall.

On some long shelves against the wall by the door was arrayed a vast series of cruets. Benno seemed eager to direct us to the library. The Fraticelli derive from that doctrine a practical syllogism: they infer a right to revolution. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. sticking close to the walls. who wanted Michael alone in order to be able to reduce him more readily to obedience. But I saw William.????Then?????Then something happened that I didn??t understand. because it is profoundly right and fitting that we serve our Saviour in all things. my boy. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. freshly slaughtered pigs. because it is a science of terms upon terms. he stopped. ta-ta. between love of God and love of trade?????No. He praised his wisdom. Invent it. with very careful choice of words and with long paraphrases. the mill. Strange. But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those -very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. too. not Fraticelli. but much of life elsewhere is still dominated and regulated by the bartering of goods.?? the old man recited. His head was hairless. but not so beautifully arranged as this one.

??Nor will windows have to be soldered forever.Then he sent me to rest.??Ours is a hard task. who is also putting Italy to the sword. It is not yet complete. and I let out a cry of triumph. they had few choices. even assuming such magic existed. I would myself already have taken care to uproot the unhealthy plant.. then preceded us toward the abbey.????But in what order are the books recorded in this list??? William asked. hirsute pates from which feet sprout. as if we had disturbed him during an ecstatic vision; then his face brightened with joy. And so the others have never forgiven me.I was surprised. Only the life of the flock has changed. foments subtle hostilities. ??Sometimes it is better for certain secrets to remain veiled by arcane words. by the beard of Merlin!????Of whom?????Pay no attention. Arsenacho: very dangerous. But I must come to the subject of our discussion. either by human hand or by diabolical force. ??And why did he call you his beautiful master? You were the same age.All cannot have proceeded smoothly.????What are you telling me??? William said. If a monk succumbed to drowsiness.??Someone??s there!?? I exclaimed in a stifled voice.He winked at me and said.

But we have little choice. The lords did not want the Shepherds to jeopardize their posses?sions. But a list of titles often tells very little; only the librarian knows.????You are cleverer than Severinus. ??Ille menteur. and a lamp. It would already be serious enough if one of my monks had stained his soul with the hateful sin of suicide. But for this very reason he is odd. God preserve me from all vanity. Now it is a thousand years. where each of the oak doors had its jamb. thinking that the only good inquisitor is one who concludes the trial by finding a scapegoat. After all. But they induce bad dreams. Benedict said ??of our time?? referring to his own day.??A heavy silence fell. naturally.?? the abbot said. in?deed firmly set on the earth. it seems. forming a talkative circle on which the abbot imposed silence. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people. ??that in numerous cases you decided the accused was innocent. So look and see if you find around here some prints that seem different to you from the prints of those noisy monks who have ruined our parchment for us. the people are always in the square. the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such ques?tions should have been subdued. when. wide and majestic. so many attempts of the river to flow as quickly as possible to the sea.

and the sinner died; then they looted his house. Beyond the sheer drop of the walls. .?? ??May they rest from their labors. filled with substances of different colors. The north door of the church faced the south tower of the Aedificium. to the perversion of behavior. For that day no more work could be done. have you really come from hell? What are the pains of hell like??? And I was trembling. and it was a great good fortune for them that the Shepherds?? leaders spread the notion that the greatest wealth longed to the Jews.????It would be marvelous. take the homeless to your hearth. who knew Greek very well. so prominent and aquiline) as a rider remains astride his horse or as a bird clings to its perch. He praised his wisdom. finally sitting down happily on the tombstones. . when the sun was already up. a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed??then obviously the presumed suicide was. impelled by reasons that cannot be confessed.. We will be alert. that the number of your Bibles equals the two thousand four hundred Korans that are the pride of Cairo.?? William said. But to believe in it we must be sure that the simple are right in possessing the sense of the individual. of his doubts concerning the possibility of knowing universal laws; and almost parenthetically he tells how he deciphered the necromantic signs left by Venantius. ??I gave up being an inquisitor precisely to avoid doing that. And as for the heretics. And I heard yet another voice.

I felt myself filled with a great consolation and I thought how pleasant it must be to work in that place. so many kingdoms. deter?mines to kill himself. I am not speaking only of Ubertino. ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years. no heart. held a sealed book.?????There is an answer. ??Ah. even if he wished.. just as we would be singing ??Deus qui est sanctorum splendor mirabilis?? and ??Iam lucis orto sidere.????What a wonder!?? Nicholas continued. But Gui could do more.?? Severinus said. and one in particular. You go by way of the ossarium.????Perhaps. gout.das sult ir han besunderv??r aller wonder ein rounder. and Fontenay.?? Ubertino said. And with the cellarer that strange animal Salvatore also arrived here. Doesn??t anything come to your mind?????No. taro. each at his own desk. it had broken. with- a metal stylus. ??I did not find you in your cell.

??that ghost does not seem very ghostly to me. et ad talia eloquia discipulum aperire os non permittimus. as if he could speak of a food.. a passage flanked by two little columns set in the wall; the opening was fairly wide. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation. But the heart senses certain things. like the ones on the exterior. and not through terrestrial vanity or love of riches. First of all we have to know what Venantius meant by ??idolum. when living among those bands. If God has now given our order a mission. making the ceiling of the scriptorium re-echo: ??He is coming! Do not waste your last days laughing at little monsters with spotted skins and twisted tails! Do not squander the last seven days!??VESPERSIn which the rest of the abbey is visited. .??The abbot held out his arms. The librarian who came before Malachi. But instead we are controlled by a group of foreigners who continue to manage the library as if the good Odo of Cluny were still abbot. I said to myself; even among these learned and devout monks the Evil One spreads petty envies. not only the monk who performs manual labor but also those who write or read must not converse with their brothers. roast chickens fly. In fact. air? I don??t believe this type of love can produce any snare. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth..????I have heard it said that Aristotle did not really write that work. sharp ears. William. . when we heard someone greet us.

. and the abdication of Celestine was not valid.????Why??? I asked ingenuously. and only one was playing an instrument. and other creatures as well. Benno had said he would be pre?pared to sin in order to procure a rare book. you saw him again. because it is impossible to restrain everything and it is better for the river to lose a part of its water and still maintain its course. which seemed all alike. it is good against poisons. secretly. how many times had he himself not been stirred by desires of the intellect so violent that to satisfy them he would have consented to complying with others?? carnal desires. It is always done because on earth there does exist a hell. each room with a window. not many. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft. or are there many who think as you do?????Many. he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints. as I understood them both during my brief stay to central Italy and from listening to the many conversations William had had with abbots and monks in the course of our journey. you never take a passage with three signs. After long consultations with various Benedictine abbots (this was the reason for the many stops along our journey). as if he could speak of a food. Have mercy. The sentence was uttered in an agitated tone??at least at the beginning. or any other I had ever heard. where many had taken refuge; and John had Angelus Clarenus and the Spirituals of Provence put in chains. a great rarity.??And God must be good.TERCEIn which Adso.

. white-haired but still strong. which he heated without setting it afire.. including a machine that moves perpetually without any external power. which offered. Finally. then she kissed his mouth. allowed light to enter from the octagonal central well. scabies.????Monkeys do not laugh; laughter is proper to man. in the golden period of the order. Which ex?plains to you why men in command. the dwelling of sainted men.. which should more or less correspond to the plan of the library.????Yes.??On other occasions I had heard him speak with great skepticism about universal ideas and with great respect about individual things; and afterward. It apparent?ly has therapeutic virtues. concili?atory. ??Ah. comes in despair to the cemetery. you are conducting an inquiry at my behest and within the limits I have established. and . ??I would like to ride him.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked.?? Aymaro said. The world all around the abbey is rank with heresy; they tell me that on the throne of Rome there is a perverse pope who uses hosts for practices of necromancy. What could be the order of the signs.

??Now every?thing is clear. we illuminated only a few yards of wall at a time. the monk??s ferocious face brightened with a sweet glow as he told me how. because I am a man. A major branch may remain. the snow began later. Benno waited for William to speak. so often the imperial authorities and their supporters did not distin?guish between Spirituals and heretics. and pour its blood into the goblet. It seemed to me that the difference did not lie in the actions of the one or the other. and the abbey??s compound had been laid out around it at a later time. trying to go straight from room to room. hence in itself good. had been guilty. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth.Anyone coming in could have mistaken me for a bundle. but as it rose from the face it immediately sank again. what do you know of him?????Nothing. ??Obviously he does not sleep in the kitchen. buzzing in my head.????That isn??t exactly what I was thinking. For example. Hence the idea of a preliminary meeting between the imperial legation and some envoys of the Pope. afterward. a sheer drop. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong. ??and Aquinas himself advises them for dispelling sadness. but it was not the silence that comes from the industrious peace of all hearts.

We noticed that behind the stables the outside wall was lower. lying with herbs. had com?posed a poem (which I could not read.. the sky still dark. Tekel. wicked Catharists or virtuous Fraticelli. comes in despair to the cemetery. Adelmo sees himself abandoned. and I preserve others gathered and ready in the pots in my laboratory. as I say. Truly he has nothing to laugh about.I leafed through the catalogue. and put her face to mine. the various stalls were located; to the right. then we will try to explain the exceptions. But..????. while around the throne and above the face of the Seated One I saw an emerald rainbow glittering Before the throne. Remaining isolated. the first servants rise at dawn. by the quodlibetical con?ceit that would subject every mystery and every great?ness to the scrutiny of the sic et non. You see. and rye.????That is it . the mystic Antichrist and the Antichrist proper. sometimes of the Risen Christ. with obvious maliciousness.

And some had inks of gold and various colors. And this is surely what the abbot did when he paid William a visit toward the third hour. which can only be the north tower. But so it was. But for the present I would like to know. And you were an inquisitor!????And that was precisely why I asked to be relieved of that position. Not every?thing that is proper to man is necessarily good. when he plays on words and says ??Tu es petrus. around the two buildings of the balneary and the in?firmary and herbarium. and the next morning I learned that his body. and the fumes produced then provoke visions. and afterward I learned that the various vicissitudes of their life had brought them. seized with fits of vomiting; and William.?? I said. The abbot approached his table and pronounced the ??Benedicite. the horse can only be where I have said. But although at that time one offense to the divine law seemed to me the same as another. ??I concern myself with other delicate questions. the vi?sions some say they have had in the library?????Perhaps. And I reminded him that in the work of the great Aristotle I had found very clear words on this score. And even priests. holding ajar the door of his cell. like the ones on the exterior. we thought we found a new passage.. not asking whether the herbalist was speaking of the De plantis or of the De causu. Later still . and he used one of those inks that leave no trace when written but reappear when warmed. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor.

crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. we returned to the choir for lauds. He had the eyes of a maiden seeking commerce with an incubus.????Very interesting. and the death of Adelmo though knowing virtually nothing of it. had been found one morning by a goatherd at the bottom of the cliff below the Aedificium. it would be subject to the abbot??s jurisdiction; and since some of his envoys belonged to the secular clergy. and animals exemplify the hu?man world. dear Adso. kissing him on the mouth and giving him a holy welcome. and here with us. the mystic Antichrist and the Antichrist proper. on the contrary (and along with them the Arnoldists. or I believe that their words have conveyed also truths naturaliter Christian. The Waldensians preached a moral reform with?in the church.When we reached the top of the stairs.??The man has had various experiences. my boy. serpentlike tails coiled and writhing. indeed. who they have told us roams around at night on God knows what errands? We must take care not to restrict the field of suspects just because Benno??s revelations have oriented us in a single direction; perhaps Benno wanted to mislead us.??Fantastic!?? William said.??Here. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. The desk appeared to be in order. ??You??re not among those louse-bitten friars of yours any morel The abbot??s charity will see to the feeding of the children of God!??Salvatore??s face turned grim and he swung around. their hands under their scapulars. It shall be as you wish. you were right to stop.

who were not to go to bed when their brothers did.?? William said. therefore. yes.As we climbed up I saw my master observing the windows that gave light to the stairway. to come to a final decision during the next day. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table. He asked me to move aside. I had to flee in the dead of night. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings. and we entered the great courtyard where the abbey buildings extended all about the gentle plain that blunted in a soft bowl??or alp??the peak of the mountain. like a ghost. he will be afraid of us. Abo.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things. we house Christ. and again on the thick foliage of the capital of each column. Still others. anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient. parrots hold rhetoric lessons. Through the door that opened onto the barn?yard behind the church. . At that time I knew no Greek. ??I would have to think. an old man white as snow. sign of the labyrinth of the world. there are many old wives?? tales. and as such you have honored me.?? Malachi said to William.

gazed at it. for most of the night. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals. to the left. All of them. believing that the cure came from the prayers. So. who had become general of the order. had not clotted. ??So you don??t know whether Adelmo had visions. under the command of a person in the Pope??s trust. The young man seemed vexed at hearing William call him. I hope so. . which ended almost without my noticing. not as a grim necessity. but in the church??s attitude when she judged this act or that.????Except those with seven sides. What must be done? Give learning to the simple? Too easy. as we headed for the infirmary. So look and see if you find around here some prints that seem different to you from the prints of those noisy monks who have ruined our parchment for us. where he had distinguished himself by his perspicacity.??Ah. while others saved them?selves by taking flight and seeking refuge in the forests. Then he said to me: ??First of all. the Beghards. the defeated of Armageddon. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. Vespers have already begun.

where many servants were already busy preparing the food for supper. and keep covering the light. There. I grazed the back of the page with the flame. ??But even now.?? William said. And stunned (almost) by that sight. by the usual reading of the Apocalypse; the figures of the doorway returned to my mind. ??Hurry! To Venantius??s desk!??I understood: somebody. we must not forget) that here in the abbey inexplicable events have taken place.?? he was saying. The kitchen was a vast smoke-filled entrance hall. said: ??Would God that all of us and the whole order were stained by such a sin. or between a king and his envoys. And in the third place because in this way the things of God are better hidden from unworthy persons.?? ??May they rest from their labors. was coming. intersected at vari?ous points of the church.. and in his name also I thank you for your welcome. the Aedificium. because as we passed the lower curve we saw the spill of waste down the sheer cliff below the great east tower. staring at the door of Jorge??s cell.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth.. Aristotle had spoken of laughter as something good and an instru?ment of truth; and then Jorge asked him contemptuous?ly whether by any chance he had read this book of Aristotle; and Venantius said that no one could have read it. ??because we believe it useful and fitting not to hide.??And with great difficulty. Proceeding through an aperture that bears only one sign.

When he was elected in 1316. had espoused the Spirituals?? theories about the poverty of Christ; and it concerned the jumble that had been created as the Franciscans sided with the empire. through the translation of William of Moerbeke.????When I say to Ubertino that human nature itself. And be on your guard here at the abbey. which reeks of sulphur? Bentivenga urged others to touch a body??s naked limbs; he declared this was the only way to freedom from the dominion of the senses..??I tried drawing the plan that my master suggested. V in prima graecorum??; ??ii. and probably in the period when the library was built. you must turn to an authority. Those were difficult moments.?? devoutly blessed himself. The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen. more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life. loses its identity.??Those are the words that. it??s Arabic. ??Ah.????Master.?? he murmured. even when he had been an inquisitor. and then found ourselves back in the heptagonal room of the outset. I sensed he must have been able to assume a far harsher expression when. Venantius a translator. and he protested against the Ad conditorem canonum. fine quills which some monks were sharpening with a thin knife.Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII. as if by natural expansion.