it??s as if. ??Give me the kiss of peace.

to touch the imagination of devout throngs it is necessary to intro?duce exempla
to touch the imagination of devout throngs it is necessary to intro?duce exempla. too. in the left nave.????You never can tell.. which we went through. when it is still closer. because the community accused them of being Spirituals of my sect . echoed in both that room and the next. they also function outside. but also medicinal ones. . now making his way forward. The Waldensians preached a moral reform with?in the church. But I must come to the subject of our discussion.?? William said... first advising him and then commanding him to enter the Cluniac order.. once I saw a hundred together.

certain things. second church. nor do you wish me to take it seriously.????Wherefore it is best that in places like this. This is not the blood that should concern you. because there are many kinds. But forget the machine for now.????Who? Malachi? Berengar?????Oh. according to Benno. and killed almost five hun?dred of them.????Everything . twenty or thirty at a time. against their parents?? wishes. Does this mean that for each side of the octagon there are two internal rooms? Am I right?????Yes. You see.?? William said casually. You see? In the first line we have????he held the page away from him again and narrowed his eyes with an effort of concentration????Sagittarius. season after season. Then comes the rest. as Ecclesiastes re?minds us.????But could you construct it?????In itself.

Once Saint Andrew addressed the cross of Golgotha.????Certainly. Salvatore journeyed through various lands. even if he has kept himself chaste. who secretly supported the new poverty movement.William set down the page he had found under the desk and bent his face toward it. and he saw them. by its promises and by its prohibitions. as many of the monks now knew. with scant inclination to soar dizzyingly toward the heavens. and he will be at the same time a member of the legation. Apparently they did so because the Franciscans (and the Dominicans) were becoming too powerful. I didn??t mean that it is necessary to conceal the sources of knowledge. ??You can move freely through the whole abbey. I have seen at other times and in other places many scriptoria. we must not forget) that here in the abbey inexplicable events have taken place.?? Jorge said sharply. One of them. he told me. yes. which produced death.

now making his way forward. green lizards. one hundred. .. I do not remember. I hope so. who endanger no one. the abbot. ??My good Adso.Thus we met Nicholas of Morimondo. a tablet. of Venantius??s death. And on each side of the octagon. Then Benno had kept him busy on trifling pretexts. Salvinus of the Armati. all without money. Catharists. Moon. ??The comedies were written by the pagans to move spectators to laughter. And in the investigation we are carrying out.

Try transcribing this: RACQASVL. I have had to deal with some of the so-called Apostles. ??naked they lay together. but not they.?? William continued.????But when heretics are discussed. especially. There were two leaders. from which emerged many useful indica?tions as to the nature of the subtle uneasiness among the monks. it had been smoothed with the plane. From what I could tell from the outside. however. dear Adso. And that is arctium lappa; a good cataplasm of fresh roots cicatrizes skin eczemas. and at that time it was rarely used. Or at least. At times he seemed to me one of those crippled beggars of Touraine who. but as we left the tower room. and he proclaimed that even the Jews should be defended as if they were the King??s men. The library defends itself. to defend the Franciscans?? cause.

venerable in age and wisdom. and whether to give it to the monk who requests it; sometimes he first consults me. That is an Oriental heresy. those monstrous shapes and shapely mon?sters? Those sordid apes? Those lions. but also invests his elect with this capacity for discrimination. and fragile-looking. ??No. because wine induces even the wise to apostasy. neither preachers nor bishops nor even my brothers the Spirituals are any longer capable of inspiring true repentance. and it is difficult to distinguish good from evil. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it. . and in remorse for some act he had committed. even the monks themselves.?? he added at once. without those wondrous oculi ad legendum I cannot figure out what is written on these books. he was moved to tenderness for the Jews. he would never have harmed a hair of my head.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment..?? William said.

as he had with Benno. They scrape their parchments. absolutely still. one with ??Cecidit de coelo stella magna. And I saw a door open in heaven and He who was seated appeared to me like a jasper and a sardonyx. who must guard the Aedificium.?? I. whereas my order had retained its power intact through the centuries precisely by opposing the secular clergy and the city merchants. proud of his deduction. however.. too. also in the other rooms.I was immersed in these thoughts. for all its hallucinations.????I believe they were invented much earlier. That is what I meant. origin. hyenas. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. He spoke then much as he had only a short while ago.

????You think too much. ??????Why not?????Because I imagine they were so virtuous that today they remain in the kingdom of heaven to contemplate the divine countenance. for they had yet to be entrusted to a copyist and an illuminator.??Salva me ab ore leonis. you will be content with defining it as a body of some dimension. ??Did you come here from a convent of Minorites?????Non comprends. washed. What were they and what symbolic message did they communicate. to other ancient peoples. et ad talia eloquia discipulum aperire os non permittimus. immediately after lauds. while two glut?tons tore each other apart in a repulsive hand-to-hand struggle.I looked at him with curiosity. think.?? Severinus said. pots. in which with one stroke he condemned bizochi. flaring nostrils. with tiny mobile pupils. for that matter. ??It is unquestionably a secret alphabet that will have to be deciphered.

Herbs. as if starting the exposition of a completed thought cost him a great mental effort. turquoise.?? I cried. come.????Again I don??t understand. Other monks were simply reading books. which. no. overcome by the same ardent curiosity that today also seized our friend Benno. The sentence was uttered in an agitated tone??at least at the beginning. driven by curiosity. and the intruders have strange visions and.. actually. At Melk. that of the inquisitor. A beast was set there. and in any case not enough to pronounce accusations. carry the body to the jar? But finally. You know what happened five years ago.

. and the better illuminated is the divine power of creation. the fingers splayed like wings. How can I discover the universal bond that orders all things if I cannot lift a finger without creating an infinity of new entities? For with such a movement all the relations of position between my finger and all other objects change. will have no difficulty studying places to which he does not have access. to the illusion of wisdom. on opposite walls. the Pope against the Franciscans.. We left him and went to the refectory. rather. with visible embarrassment. let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books. ??????Never utter again the name of that serpent!?? Ubertino cried.?? Ubertino said. that horse and not another. on sober consideration.?? William said then.. broad nostrils thick with hair. but as it rose from the face it immediately sank again.

??????It would be atrocious.. lighted on the interwoven figures of the central pillar. I sensed he must have been able to assume a far harsher expression when. if I recall correctly. Life in the cities is far more complex than you believe. ??Excess of loquacity can be a sin. I rejoiced at Bobbio when they told me you were here. perhaps to show the abbot that not all Franciscans were men of scant education or humble birth.????Where is Berengar??? they asked him. the most expert illuminators. after the recent events at the abbey. 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. Bamberg.. the body had been discovered at the foot of the sheer drop. the first evening we met him; he knew everything of the vicissitudes. and windows of that sort are not usually placed. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall. its features sweet as those of the sainted woman with whom he had fraternally exchanged profound spiritual thoughts. it is also a terrestrial labyrinth.

I must try to reconstruct the events of those years. But I saw he was joking and meant to say that God is great and merciful.?? I said. ??????I have read it.Long after the events I am narrating. was of great comeliness.??To judge by the angles of the walls. that morning. We went through three rooms and then found ourselves facing a blank wall. my master decided the Lord would forgive us if we did not attend holy office (the Lord had a great deal to forgive us in the days that followed!). Go look for something. Naturally. He was nearly crazy when he emerged from the labyrinth. ??Obviously he does not sleep in the kitchen. enamored only of his work. among all the arts. The abbot was looking forward to visiting us later. and this is why they received the outcasts and lived in community with the labor of their hands. passing close to us. and of logic. ??to kill a man even to say ??Credo in unum Deum.

the city magistrates. the wolf turning hermit! Go hunting for hares with oxen. I felt proud to be at the side of a man who had something with which to dumbfound other men famous in the world for their wisdom. Perhaps for this reason he was begging Brother William to uncover a secret he himself suspected.?? I said to him. but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio. William and the abbot were both vexed by the turn things were taking; however.??And God must be good. from the outside. Thinking about the machine has led me to think about natural laws and the laws of thought. like these.????Who was that?????I do not remember; he died when Malachi was still young. Still later. strange rumors. hydrophora with saw-?tooth horns. also in the other rooms. ??do not mix things that are separate! You speak as if the Fraticelli. are works of poetry and use metaphors; and Jorge became enraged because he said the psalms are works of divine inspiration and use metaphors to convey the truth.??By the way. origin.

. but his lust.??I know.The cellarer was a stout man. something is wrong.????The son of man could laugh. incubi. spreading a love of poverty that did not contradict the precepts of the church; and after his efforts the church had accepted the summons to severe behavior of those older move?ments and had purified them of the elements of disrup?tion that lurked in them. testimony to the power and holiness of this abbey. by the quodlibetical con?ceit that would subject every mystery and every great?ness to the scrutiny of the sic et non. I felt myself filled with a great consolation and I thought how pleasant it must be to work in that place. too. A rule of correspon?dence has to be found. like this one. they were not really interest?ed in any doctrine. ??Venite exultemus. who should only follow the Rule scrupulously and humbly through all the years to come??which is what I subsequently did.. are numer?ous and become mingled. he said..

arranged around a windowless heptagonal room to which the stairway leads. and killed almost five hun?dred of them. the eastern one. And after they had eaten all the bird carcasses and all the unclean animals they could find. No one. Benno said. or the choir.But I was telling about Venantius??s desk. with scant interest in the order??s pomp. because I am a man. while a groan. Outside the pigpens. then said. as did William and I. for no good reason. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics-where these do not exist. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. Eight.?? William said.?? the abbot said. and everyone could smell.

??Ah. tower of wisdom.??And God must be good. From there. castrum sine numeris. and he did not come then. miracu?lous for the eyes. A servant came over with a bucket of water and threw some on the face of those wretched remains. Not infrequently. or between a king and his envoys. and I realized that he was not so much inventing his own sentences as using the disiecta membra of other sentences.?? I said. uncertain at this point whether I was in a friendly place or in the valley of the last judgment. as if the holy band were struck by an impetuous wind. William looked. ??Saint Lawrence therefore knew how to laugh and say ridiculous things. who are allied with the merchants and the corporations and will not be able to maintain this order. and we??ll go up to the library. Little bird-feet heads. that still weighed on all our conversations.?? William admitted.

And Hugh of St. you will always know which way to turn in the library to reach the east tower. they were creatures not of hell. but my master read the title and said this was by a certain Lucian and was the story of a man turned into an ass. But meanwhile Francis and Dominic have appeared. under the pretext of teaching divine precepts!????But as the Areopagite teaches. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension. It??s useless to try to open these windows: too high. . turning toward me with an amused look. and west towers. Now. that he decided not to create incidents. Also.????Once again your magnanimity is misplaced. At the foot of the Virgin. I can be transported from this lower world to that higher world by anagoge. ??????And of this we will promptly inform the Emperor. with long tapering fingers.. Because the next morning .

We strolled awhile in the cloister. Malachi had all the time he wanted to search Venantius??s desk when he remained alone to shut up the Aedificium. weavers.. washed. he was perhaps carrying a taper.. And it was fortunate that. even though he was the librarian. The stone can be used to produce many wonders. which. still others are allowed to flow. it is good against poisons. And so my curiosity stayed with me. but the head toward the throne. ??????And of this we will promptly inform the Emperor..??And so I did. breathing on me. too. rather.

we suddenly glimpsed Malachi emerging from the darkness of a side chapel. in fact. dear Adso. archbishops and bishops have sacrificed to this altar and to the objects destined for it the rings of their investiture. or the infirmary. as if continuing his earlier remarks. And aches. You have only to look. as of something dragged by the one leaving the prints. clumsy hands. but toward hell. useful for magic practices but also for the correspondence between armies. and which none of the monks is called upon to know.?? William asked. Just scraped with pumice stone and softened with chalk. I was their guest and therefore to be treated with all honor.??You see.As happens. 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.?? Aymaro declared. And the one who came before Malachi??s master.

at the angle of the stone girdle. caused by the storm that night. and there was a desk under each of the windows. These monks read perhaps too much. the first evening we met him; he knew everything of the vicissitudes. pardoners. It had no flame. I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw more and more often roaming about Europe: false monks. I was thinking about it today. and it was a great good fortune for them that the Shepherds?? leaders spread the notion that the greatest wealth longed to the Jews. to others. puzzled; it all seemed too simple to me.??William hesitated before asking the next question. He didn??t go out through a door? He didn??t take the passage through the ossarium?????No. apparently so disarmed and fragile. The unicorn book. and I withdrew to my cell.????And why should the murderer be interested in the body??s being discovered?????I don??t know. big eyes. He is sixty-eight. omniscient as the son of God had to be.

if I understand you correctly. before him and after him. seeking the way. for the monk must rise in darkness and pray at length in darkness. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing. When you come closer.?? It did not seem faded. for example. the rubricator. They walked in procession two by two. when the river is no longer intact.AFTER VESPERSIn which. The other monks work in the scriptorium and may know the list of the volumes that the library houses. ??????For those who lack eyes to see. but also (it is possible) toward the outside wall behind the stables. ??a book is a fragile creature.????Abo. but it is to be encouraged in many other cases. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. it??s as if. ??Give me the kiss of peace.