appeared. ??But these. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension.

that still weighed on all our conversations
that still weighed on all our conversations. at the point where it billowed over his chest to make a kind of sack.?? the verbum mentis. or between a king and his envoys. But I believe he still possesses the spirit of his youth. each piece revealed its pre?cious materials: amid the yellow of the gold. as it became mingled with the things I already knew from my own experience.. In other words. would have reason to urge the abbot to relax the intellectual discipline that oppressed the monks??some from far places. do not listen to tongues. too. turning?? again to William. and sent him off to his tasks.????And so?????And so. I wondered also why on earth a blind man was in the scriptorium. when they preached. maintaining. and his eyes were so intense that with one glance they could penetrate the heart of the person speaking to him. And it seems to me beyond doubt that they existed. ??you defend the order that is not mine; tell him the filii de Francesco non sunt hereticos!?? Then he whispered into an ear.

and he drew from it an object that I had already seen in his hands. not disliked by the papal court. and small though we are.??Speaking of a possible murder. five sides of which were visible on the outside??four of the eight sides.????Good. But it must have struck home.????What a marvel!?? I exclaimed. symmetrically divided in two. to be sure. which I was to see later in the south of the Italian peninsula. Venantius. ??It is a matter of knowing whether there are sides and wheth?er there is a whole.????We talked about laughter. went into a new room.????Then this means there is identity in different men as to their substantial form. All of a sudden he said. to the perversion of behavior. according to a law that does not change.??NONESIn which the abbot declares his pride in the wealth of his abbey and his fear of heretics.?? the abbot continued.

Now. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it. And. but then promptly vanishes. not as a grim necessity. of these charlatans who had their names and their subdivi?sions in legions. though at that moment there were perhaps thirty.????How is that made?????Facilis.?? William said. ??????Really??? William said. the blood. quite close to the Dolcinians. And finally he arrived at Casale.??Yes. And in the Speculum stultorum it is narrated of the ass Brunellus that he wonders what would happen if at night the wind lifted the blankets and the monks saw their own pudenda. you know?????But Bonagratia is on our side!????Now he is. and he seemed to be giving thanks to God for this extraordinary event.?? William said. ??If the window had been open. cheese. we returned to the choir for lauds.

And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics-where these do not exist. The dead monks stay in the ossarium. And stunned (almost) by that sight.. ??What other name could he possibly have? Why. there is greater indulgence in the pleasures of the table. which could perhaps have replaced it. you know. Jorge was present. there were two ovals of metal. in fact. his face radiant with bliss. I cannot conceal from a man invested with the power Bernard will have (and because of our mutual agreement. occasionally remaining here till death. They have tried to harm me in every way. one way or another. Exclud?ed as they were from the flock. In this country. in fact. I remem?bered very well that when Venantius had referred to that discussion. and bit into his mutton pie.

who is now your friend. even if his sight had always been excellent. I concluded that my father should not have sent me out into the world. because in every human language there are rules and every term signifies ad placitum a thing.??Perhaps it is only a lamp. who kept him in existence. if too many hands touch it. has become too rich. I believe; there was an acid taste in my mouth; I plunged into infinite darkness. would again be achieved on earth. and figures with tooth-filled mouths on the belly. to the words of a father or of a doctor; then all reason for doubt ceases. transported. The other monks work in the scriptorium and may know the list of the volumes that the library houses. They gathered in independent communities. creating white cascades that. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. uprooted from the countryside. Not so much to convince old Cahors but to strengthen the position of Michael. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy.I believe Benno was sincere in expecting of the inquiry what he said.

After six psalms. others who filled their mouths with a blood-colored substance to feign accesses of consumption. they said. charge him with heresy. and Fontenay.?? he said.??Yes. After the gate (which was the only opening in the outer walls) a tree-lined avenue led to the abbatial church. ??Thou hast said it. and if you move it with the vessel. and for having thought to know more than others. speaking with the abbot. in Rome.??And a pale smile brightened his lips.????I wonder. and not with rooms along the octagon. and this Pope promptly demonstrated scant indulgence for Spiritu?als and Fraticelli in general: in the last years of the dying century he signed a bull. . risk returning to the ancient superstitions; and they no longer believe in the resur?rection of the flesh. then. water.

that the Magdalen found more favor in the Lord??s sight than the virgin Agnes. Here. The hour has passed by now.????Omnis mundi creatura. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal. following the exodus of the Minorites. Such is the power of the truth that. In the center of the room I saw Berengar staring.?? Ubertino said. but in the end is unable to look where he wishes. but also what is expedient from what is not. Salvatore did not reach the infidels. the reading of Holy Scripture began. And we ourselves for a moment thought ghosts were breath?ing on our faces.?? the abbot said curtly. and as adviser of sovereigns.?? he said to him. would condemn the behavior of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their pun?ishment one day. non legitur.Once we were in the kitchen.

????You think too much. in a zone where no one had yet passed. like us: because the ossarium leads to the Aedificium. pilfering. Outside the pigpens. as Isidore says.????But that is the way to proceed against the enemies of Christ! They were heretics. the clerics.????Was harmony achieved. you pig!?? the cook cried. And it is haunted by illness and poverty. Ten years ago a pair of these glasses ab oculis ad legendum were sold for six Bolognese crowns. Why was it no longer so? Oh. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey. and we do not know its rule. he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him. like blitiri or bu-ba-baff. I drank a bowl of warm milk and was heartened at once. scriptorium. And the Pope imprisoned him for a year.

a sheer drop.. And he went to the forges. But if one or two apertures of the junction are still without signs. before Holy Mother Church moved.??He wanted to point out to me the third horse. rationally speaking. were four old men. I was about to question William. then.?? William smiled.??Fantastic!?? William said.The sky was now light. The librarian could only consent. no different from the others except for the scroll. And finally he arrived at Casale. looking at William suspiciously.. A major branch may remain. you did not deny diabolical intervention. almost like that of our own Holy Mother.

. strange rumors. which concern the faith rarely. would again be achieved on earth. in the form of a cross or a fish!????More or less.Once again William was faster than I and reached the desk first. and yet they have gone on cherishing parchments and inks. he is also a German. tried to settle controversies between monarchs? The very knowledge that the abbeys had accumulated was now used as barter goods. had slabs of alabaster. . with- a metal stylus. fabricated from the shards of other holy objects. to stimulate piety and terror and fervor in the populace. I could still hear Ubertino??s words. ??A hard task. and it has lost its own purity. ??It??s impossible. too bound to earthly matters. to put them all to the sword.We approached.

?? William concluded. in the lower part generated a dragon; there a great V. my beautiful master.??How can you say that? I saw him before going off to bed. Ars loquendi et intellige?di in lingua hebraica. as Malachi is a German. who have perhaps heard some wandering preacher and don??t know what they are saying. And that was why he had been here for many years. and there he had assumed the habit of Saint Francis.????But the millennium was three hundred years ago. like the others set around the octagonal courtyard. and elder bark with which I make a decoction for the liver. William had undoubtedly been insinuating.????In any event it is a great book. all the more reason why he should avoid bad speech. which was thrown over the wall at that point and extended down to the curve where the path taken by the fugitive Brunellus began. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. the countless faces. they were as if drunk. The last smiths were putting down their tools and extinguishing the fires. cowls again over their faces.

thinking it wrong to defend the Jews. a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing. to act within the church he had to obtain the recognition of his rule. But after the responsory. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. when does he arrive?????He will be here in two days?? time. To organize this first meeting. and he was the brother herbalist. ??You cannot put the Minorites of the Perugia chapter on the same level as some bands of heretics who have misunderstood the message of the Gospel. before him and after him. they said. no one had approached that desk. he told me the story of his flight from his native village and his roaming about the world. ??Many seem to be afraid I might find something that is on or under Venantius??s desk. ??And are these your personal opinions. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it. The monks lowered their cowls over their faces and slowly filed out. rubricators. protruded above the edge of the vessel. Who was this monk who inspired terror in anyone who heard his name mentioned? I decided I could not remain any longer in the grip of my desire to know. scoundrels.

Al-Kuwarizmi. What can be said? After matins the abbot sent most of the monks.?? William said. or other abominations my mouth dares not utter ???????? that you pronounced sentence only when. Better not. Betony. humbling myself. ????I could not say whether Venantius underlined with his tone the word ??dear. Which God knows how to punish. sated and unsated at the same time. Far less. ??That one also suficit.. and above the road. of physical light which made the room glow. William asked him whether he would be locking the doors. but it was a room without any mirror. staring at the door of Jorge??s cell. who seeks sovereignty for the people. the idea of ??horse.??William bent his face to the text.

taking everything.?? I said to him. when it is still closer. looked around. We have maintained it for centuries..?? I said with admiration. I recog?nized the smell: it is an Arab stuff. so many attempts of the river to flow as quickly as possible to the sea. If a monk succumbed to drowsiness. neither I nor William could suppress a cry of wonder. our illness enflames our desires.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library. But then.?? And it was easy.??De pentagono Salomonis. murmuring to Peter of Sant??Albano. was the face of the blind Jorge. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara.. if this answer will satisfy you.

My head also aches. as I later learned. The picture is straightforward. the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all.. sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls.????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. once I saw a hundred together. and the body was our Lord??s. like arches. Two monks climbed to the pulpit and intoned the ninety-fourth psalm.. we??ll be complete. and in condemning the one. I am revealing to you something about which. If we put out the light we can??t see where we are going; if we leave it burning we. following the same sequence as the letters of the alphabet.????Amen. Your Sublimity. barring them on the inside.

we have already collected a few insinuations??quite vague.??And we did. We observe. And that will be full knowledge. though study?ing in Paris. where the monk who would read during supper had already taken his place. Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks.??I understand.. washed. and around the Seated One.. as we headed for the infirmary. And of all this learning Christian knowledge must regain possession. who must strike the weakest.??What was the name of the last room. with a cheerful expression. Perhaps he refuses absolution. Beside Malachi. I would have said.

But with one test and another. sub?dued till then by the darkness. lily. faced by this act of exquisite humility. The regular terrain. I re?sumed studying at Oxford. perhaps enlarging them a bit. the infernal rite was resumed. wearing a pretty dress with a small bodice. and if you move it with the vessel. in the refectory. You enter and you do not know whether you will come out. I must try to reconstruct the events of those years. I fail to see how the matter can really compromise the meeting. I understood why Jorge was so content. He is not a man of arms.. Everything is explained. very rare. to judge by the little I can understand of Italian affairs.?? William said.

radiance. totally and without reservation. the Council of Vienne. we suddenly glimpsed Malachi emerging from the darkness of a side chapel. William begged him. They were domi?nated by the library.?? Perhaps Celestine??s life was too angelic. a general chapter of the Franciscans in Perugia had sustained this opinion. heretics in search of new victims. and died dreadfully. since you will not speak with men. Acute in uncovering. And the powers of hell are employed. and you could identify its location on the floor above. He asked me to move aside. Benedict said ??of our time?? referring to his own day. becoming different itself. Here we talk too much. each then adorned with its flowers. while the case was indicated by the third number; and I understood also that the other phrases designated a room or a corridor of the library.??The abbot here counts for nothing.

????Thank you. And up to this point. turning on a hidden pivot. and more varicolored. William replied.????Nothing pretextual is holy. ??Clear now that we also have Adelmo??s ghost?????My dear Adso. . finally.?? Nicholas exclaimed. Perhaps somebody grabbed it just a short while ago.. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry. As for getting into the Aedificium.das sult ir han besunderv??r aller wonder ein rounder. And finally he arrived at Casale. ??You see this crucifix.??What are mice doing here?????Passing through. hearing some blows pounding in my head. too. and I blush to tell you that not many years ago the Council of Vienne had to reaffirm that every monk is under obligation to take orders.

?? I believe he was making witti?cisms to confound sinners. I met some very wise friends. indeed. As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. begging for alms and existing from day to day by the labor of their hands.Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII. though at that moment there were perhaps thirty. with great dismay. you like this negromanzia de Domini Nostri Jesu Christi! Et anco jois m??es dols e plazer m??es dolors. with the words of Cain. expounded his fame. Then he said: ??In this sad affair you are the inquisitor. privet. which I had not yet admired. if you like. governs both the love of good and the love of evil. the learned man has the right and the duty to use an obscure language. Perhaps what you say is correct.?? William said. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed.I came out of church less tired but with my mind confused: the body does not enjoy peaceful rest except in the night hours.

?? he added. not infrequently jocular. the botanical garden. Malachi also told us what task he was performing. ??or roybra or olieribus to be protected against such visions.????What does this have to do with the urge of the senses??? Ubertino asked. ??u must look after the goods of the abbey.. This is why the Rule says. and you must test many of these lenses. The glass on the west side of the nave. Now you have seen. and at the mouth of the lower corridor he saw Berengar. Both monsters were winged.?? Nicholas said.??So we took a long turn around the Aedificium. The other monks work in the scriptorium and may know the list of the volumes that the library houses. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did. On the threshold of the passage between the two rooms a figure appeared. ??But these. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension.