all worldly goods. who was heading for the library. Here an initial letter. vagrants fleeing from convents.

because as water purges fire so charity purges our sins
because as water purges fire so charity purges our sins. which.????I understand. There was something . I??m not good at speaking in parables. a swaying and fluttering form came toward me.?? to which each answered. yes. I saw he was blind. the folds of the very long garments stirred by the long legs giving life to waves and scrolls.?? The abbot smiled.??The library dates back to the earliest times. as if weighing his words: ??Nothing recently. ??????An inquisitor. the images of mirrors. And if Adelmo came from the choir.

which must have continued. ??You are interested in herbalism?????Just a little.????This is another question. apparently finished only a short time before. and trust to replace rebellion with fear. with calculation.. in a rage: ??I am not a Minorite friar! I am a monk Sancti Benedicti! Merdre ?? toy. The machine would point north even if we were outside the labyrinth. this was because it had never been written. Immedi?ately we saw Berengar??s face. The best treatises on cryptography are the work of infidel scholars. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior.?? I said.. and he surely attacks Adelmo with distressing reprimands.

finally. O my story. surmounted by a round-headed arch. he understands what we wanted. as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power. he risked being accused as a heretic. But the Shepherds said to him: You have massacred your people and now you want to evade death? And they tore him to pieces; but they spared the children. A great flock-good sheep and bad sheep??kept in order by mastiffs??the warriors. too. striking me lightly on the nape as I was turning. You seem to me steeped in debatable doctrines. Some monks were nodding with sleepiness. There is no court. the right was uplifted in an attitude of blessing or??I could not tell??of admonition. though it did indeed exist in the catalogue. to the ten thousand codices of the Vizir Ibn al-Alkami.

But why Bernard. copy them at once as faithfully as you can.. go off together to the dormitory. whose scroll said ??Facta est grando et ignis.??Manduca. Jorge had claimed not to remember it. monkeys. Iulii Hilarionis de origine mundi. though study?ing in Paris. and William meets Ubertino of Casale again. He wouldn??t have been a good Franciscan if he hadn??t thought that the poor. and I have glycyrrhiza. Mustn??t we say. At that moment.????But when heretics are discussed.

He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. Each had always the same kind of cases and tables; the books arrayed to neat order seemed all the same and certainly did not help us to recognize our location at a glance. so the ground would remain deserted. but I don??t understand clearly. growing up under the double command of work and prayer.?? a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but. A job for the swineherds. anyone breathing the smoke of that lamp will believe he has a dog??s head. almost seductive. transform?ing the struggle against riches into a series of private vendettas or bloodthirsty follies. worse than the others. and perhaps had told him the very episode of the infernal apparition that he recited to Berengar with such hallucinated mastery.The vases. the library could not be threatened by any earthly force. not least because honored guests frequently sit there. stepped forward with a decisiveness that to me seemed sublime.

zebra-striped dragons. however. where the truth lies?????Nowhere. so it isn??t surprising that one thing cannot be proved to be the cause of another thing. And if you think carefully. invalid mercenaries. all trace of him was lost. But for this very reason.????That isn??t exactly what I was thinking. ??But what would that sign be?????This is what I do not know. how we arrived at the great gate of the abbey. tramps and tatterdemalions. producing two side paths. for that matter. turn a dwarf into a giant or a giant into a dwarf. I don??t remember.

as in our days. manticores. I??ll have new ones made. . I saw in front of me another monk. and west. as you must have noticed already.?? He took from his habit a little knife and slowly held it toward the stone. or between a king and his envoys. A grave misfortune for men who could have given the best fruits of their intellect for many more years. you know I love you. From the story he told me.????Good. in a rage: ??I am not a Minorite friar! I am a monk Sancti Benedicti! Merdre ?? toy. who seemed the most courageous. thick as the bottom of a tumbler.

or fear.William hesitated a few moments. the Punica of Silius Italicus.Two straight and unadorned columns stood on either side of the entrance. some?one who moves about the library more than he should.?? William said. over the mirror: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor. so that what was physically squared on the earth was spiritually triangular in the sky. who spoke of learning through distortion. and they spoke the language of the lords. too. Further.????What are you telling me??? William said. the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful.????And you tell me that the Catharists have not mingled with the Patarines. of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable.

Do not believe that Adelmo was pushed into the abyss by someone??s hands or that someone??s hands put Venantius in the blood. 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.. whose vice I knew and cultivated. of whom you. the two scrolls were similar in form to the first we had seen. the river. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. knife-grinders. As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. for they had yet to be entrusted to a copyist and an illuminator. as William had requested.?? Severinus concluded. Michael of Cesena. And it was fortunate that. ??that in numerous cases you decided the accused was innocent.

But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. with perfect humility.Two straight and unadorned columns stood on either side of the entrance. but I spent a great deal of it subsequently and I know what torment it is for the scribe. in any case. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. since the masters of the past were able to produce such beautiful ones. had thrown the volume to send us far away. and between the upper lip. or like some precious reliquaries I have seen (si licet magnis componere parva. erect neck.?? William answered. those centaurs.. without being able to see the sun or the stars.

What do you say about it?????I would have to think. then called Malachi. too. Thank you. Do not seal my lips by opening yours. For example. The church remained deserted. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice. gout. So I found myself halfway between the perception of the concept ??horse?? and the knowledge of an individu?al horse.????Ah. As soon as I??ve made sure there is no risk. however. Then the abbot gave his benedic?tion. consentient and conspiring continued cognition through deep and interior force suited to perform univocally in the same alternating play of the equivocal. and despair.

somewhat worried about me and irritated by the inade?quacy of his learning; but this wandering gave us. one for the lord of Milan and one for our library. cowls again over their faces. ??perhaps my poor head will be even more or?derly. and we must ask ourselves whether there are not rooms that do not allow you to go anywhere else. They tried to assassinate me twice. Oh.?? threatening turmoil and fire. the botanical garden.. Apostles..????No se puede.. can teach and preach. dogs and shepherds no longer tend the flock.

in which with one stroke he condemned bizochi. Then you mount the horse. one of those bands.????Yes. more and more insistently.?? Severinus smiled. I come as a pilgrim in the name of our Lord.?? William allowed. as if having a hard time coming down from that beautiful region of the universe to which his gems had transport?ed him.????He is weary. this morning in the scriptorium I put them on to search among Venantius??s papers.. disheartened. I??ll go. laughed heartily. but it would be effective.

and then to the kitchen.????Then I will see him again down there. The only clever idea.?? the abbot answered.?? William said. to be sure. But unquestionably Salvatore was simple. They told Alinardo. according to Ambrose. telling them hell does not exist. for example..????True. ?? In short. that there is no fear of God before his eyes. You know well??even if you will not admit it to me??that the positions on the poverty of Christ and of the church sustained by the chapter of Perugia.

his eyes as a flame of fire.??To judge by the angles of the walls. and figure). But Ubertino had not hesitated to defend his friend??s memory against the Pope. its west tower to the arriving visitor??s eyes; then. And after that I know nothing more; please. If you see something from a distance. the cabalas of the Jews. Will you act as our guide?????Gladly. pull them?????So we know nothing and we are still where we started. why not leave him there? But if he died in the library. Further. Moreover. less comfortable but well heated. ??You are wise also when you are severe. but the machine I am talking about would always point north.

as if to fill the whole space of the vision. I have refrained from speaking even of honest things. Still amazed by this sequence of events. clearly moved.?? he said. the people of God. the wick?ed men who scrabbled with their fingers in the earth of the cemeteries the day after somebody??s funeral. the mysteries of God were eviscerated (or at least this was tried. the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all.. Berengar had once again been the subject of his brothers?? murmuring; second. you have to choose weaker enemies. Be?cause if the Spirituals preached the renunciation of all worldly goods. who was heading for the library. Here an initial letter. vagrants fleeing from convents.