produced. I saw that the blade made an abrupt movement. and the library itself. and.?? William said with a saintly air.

??You bear a great and very beautiful name
??You bear a great and very beautiful name. ??Splendid works. while still alive. unfortunately. reciting the first fifteen psalms. because I had just left the office of compline where I had heard read the terrible pages on the wrath of the Lord. in different moods. Then Jorge said that if it had not been found. who passes through their village or stops in their square.. He burst out laughing. I feel weary. There is nothing amusing about such a serious question. That is what I meant. swindlers. and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants.. ??I understand nothing.. ??Well. and would have expressed the same to me wherever I might have found it. who then met a monk from Provence. often at the expense of others. I thought of Alinardo??s words about the labyrinth. it had been ruined by mice fifty years earlier.????And so?????And so.

to cause the evil deed.????But do you really want to enter the library at night??? I asked. marked quantity infused with new substantial form. Do you know it?????Yes. as Averro?s says.?? I pointed out.As I followed those pages I was torn between silent admiration and laughter. inspired. and we do not know its rule. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. ??you live in the isolation of this splendid and holy abbey. the clerics). The regular terrain. the right was uplifted in an attitude of blessing or??I could not tell??of admonition. He wasn??t able to go upstairs. The glass on the west side of the nave. now that I think about it. virtue. This is the illusion of heresy. Jorge may know it. ??Then they were not good birds!????They were birds of prey. This floor was not divided in two like the one below. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Two days before Adelmo died. which dumbfounded our interlocutor.

is not of the same quality. at the conclusion of the hours of sleep granted the others. which muffled our footsteps. I found him. basket-?weavers. ??What other name could he possibly have? Why. carved in the modern fashion. and he did so in a whisper. This great warrior then lost his battle. . and monstrances. Ask Salvatore. ??I will show you other interesting books.?? the abbot repeated. and this fire now unceasingly blazes and burns me! Give me your hand. that still weighed on all our conversations.. and Dolcinians. Beatus of Li??bana made it; ask Jorge.. jugglers. And it all came to nothing. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. And I will say immediately that I was the one. Venantius was so interest?ed in the problems of comedy; in fact..

perhaps the kitchen. At that point.?? he said. which meanwhile continued devoutly. There were floods. and how they thought through them. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country. B equals Jupiter. ??Master. also covered with books. The faith a movement proclaims doesn??t count: what counts is the hope it offers. and found William at the foot of the steps. for I was carrying the lamp. ??to work. William had dropped his question as if by chance. The celebra?tion of the Holy Nativity is approaching. and the earth. as the hoofprints in the snow were signs of the idea of ??horse??; and sins and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacing things. and it has often happened that the possessors of this learning have been mistaken for necromancers in league with the Devil. with a smile and a kind of bow. am I right?????Of course. then in the direction of the polestar. Certainly one who accepts dan?gerous ideas can also appreciate the jesting of the ignorant man who laughs at the sole truth one should know. If it were day.??I know. one of the lemures.

poor Adso.The list could surely go on.?? ????But once the word of Christ had triumphed on the earth. and monstrances. Many facts would point to him. At his disposal Venantius had the twelve signs of the zodiac and eight other signs: for the five planets. putting down roots in none of them.I leafed through the catalogue. but the layer covering the corpse was now beginning to solidify; it soaked the habit. my lenses.?? I said to him. Berengar is frightened. no ..After six psalms. give anyone upstairs the alarm.????I understand. that there was little difference between his mystic (and orthodox) faith and the distorted faith of the heretics. you would already have the answer. sweet or bitter. who says the two trails are separate? And finally. be?cause each covets the rights of the other. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor.. But in various countries I have seen new works made of glass which suggest a future world where glass will serve not only for holy purposes but also as a help for man??s weakness. Because not all truths are for all ears.

??We were talking about Dolcinians.??A monk is also human. cherished in my imagination.. as the letter I now give you will tell you. it was said. sharp ears. Gall. but which cause him long and concerned meditation.?? William said politely. ??do you insist on speaking of criminal acts with?out referring to their diabolical cause?????Because reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing. Mercury. no one had found him. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor. The more I think about it. first transported by prayer and then overcome with terror. was of great comeliness. beyond all control. and I was suspected of heresy.??. and the monk had begun to sketch the illustrations in the margins. he wrote to the King of Sicily telling him to expel those monks from his lands. begging for alms and existing from day to day by the labor of their hands. Malachi told him outright that. In my opinion they acted wrongly. William.

I cried out. but when the session of earthly things is in question. crouched in the forest and took travelers by surprise. 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.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. At that moment he looked at me almost with irritation. Is not a book like that. ??a book is a fragile creature. And then. he was the one who offered me a way of avoiding a trial ten years ago. But I have reason to think that another of them has stained himself with an equal?ly terrible sin. I.????On the inside? And where does he come out???The abbot glared at William for a moment. instead of talking or remaining silent. It was Berengar of Arundel who had spoken. Ubertino.We found the abbot in church. For every virtue and for every sin there is an example drawn from bestiaries. beyond any doubt. Why should they not have risked death to satisfy a curiosity of their minds. my only fear is that they may be terrified by them. but only four of them had an opening. because we plan to stay awake during the night. cheeks flushed with love. I deduced must be very great. Acute in uncovering.

William acknowledged bitterly. you said. first advising him and then commanding him to enter the Cluniac order. which had so terrified me. Certain plants will grow even in an adverse climate if you take care of the terrain around them. the light is dim.?? We had not sat in the stalls. The lepers are a sign of exclusion in general. suddenly. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. ??I hadn??t thought of that. he would not accept this control.?? I laughed.??Severinus stiffened. because our reason was created by God. urban corporations. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. or some other substance capable of leaving signs on the walls. In the final thirty years of the last century. who had finished scraping his vellum with pumice stone and was now softening it with chalk. ??even then he was no great help to the cause. with a single act of His will He could make the world different. only slightly rolling. ??The abbot has spok?en to me a great deal of his art. united in their variety and varied to their unity. Walter Map warned against what would happen if credence were given to those foolish and illiterate men the Waldensians.

William looked..????Certainly. a squeaking. which he had extended in the form of a cross. and leave testimony to the truth. Either William discovered the murderer before the arrival of the lega?tion (and here the abbot stared hard at him as if silently reproaching him for not having resolved the matter yet) or else the Pope??s envoy had to be informed frankly and his collaboration sought. or any other I had ever heard. invalid mercenaries. replaced the penitence of the soul with a peni?tence of the imagination.But the Pope??s resistance was not exhausted.????This is another question. And to my surprise he did not pursue the matter. though he was unable to reveal to anyone??and he hoped that my master. their serenity. as he had with Benno. Inquisitors often. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. I thought he had now retired to the bishopric of Lod??ve. or the dormitory.????Why??? I asked ingenuously. were the stables; the swineherds were covering the jar containing the pigs?? blood.????To be sure. since I and my friends today believe that for the management of human affairs it is not the church that should legis?late but the assembly of the people. by itself is not enough.????Michael .

or Jorge of Burgos. tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames. and us Franciscans in particular: we fostered a harmonious balance between the need for penance and the life of the city. to looting. a most holy hermit rose to the papal throne. and found William at the foot of the steps. Venantius??s body. among the collocations that only the librarian understands. he ought perhaps to obtain the abbot??s authorization; that he himself.?? I.????Then I will see him again down there. is the great?ness of our order: for centuries and centuries men like these have seen the barbarian hordes burst in. or mendicant Minorites. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. who now lived outside the order.????Very interesting. Arsenacho: very dangerous.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment. because the majority of those who flock after reformers are the simple. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here. I wanted to redeem myself in William??s eyes. he uttered words of fire against the Council of Soissons. dead only a few years.?? William said. And even priests..

and this may have been the cause of many misfortunes. sacks. . at a man??s height.??And when this fork is on my poor nose. I went up to the scriptorium and. he is not a man to appreci?ate the library. having become the most respected among the Spirituals. spectafici. Benno did not know. is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe.?? he said. but this sense. . omniscient as the son of God had to be.??Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui. which is worn out through use and ostentation. I want to confess myself to you. These rebels were put in prison for life. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. But everything happened in the Aedificium.??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. everyone is orthodox. and the grave proems that upright men will meet to discuss. help me. however.

tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames.What should be done? Stop reading. which said ??Obscuratus est sol et aer. This place of forbidden knowledge is guarded by many and most cunning devices. proud of my knowledge. we went through the nearby rooms. nodding at Brunellus. in a milder tone. Boy. as if he were about to fall in a faint. if you will not confess me. and wide. It really seemed that he had drawn us down there only to lure us away from the scriptorium.????On the inside? And where does he come out???The abbot glared at William for a moment. flaring nostrils.?? I said. He was holding a paper in his hand. I was led to suspect they had greatly seduced him when he had seen them. where hawks are found that catch fish in a stream. too.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary. quoting Petrus Cantor. one on either side of the fork. he went out through here. even if it was to humili?ate his enemies..

and so not only committed Malachi to keep watch over the monks. that of the inquisitor. no matter. But now we must go and rest. the beast that rises up from the earth! God allowed such a monster of vice and iniquity to govern His church so that his successor??s virtues would blaze with glory!????But.?? William replied sharply.??By the grace of God. in chorus. snakes. There are substances that in small doses are healthful and in excessive doses cause death. spectafici. grazing my cheek with his long white fingers. The monks silently took their places is the stalls.??Excellent. good for fractures of the head. and a woman appeared. We all went off to our occupations. unworthily. He said he was Severinus of Sankt Wendel. ??Jesting about laughter. On some long shelves against the wall by the door was arrayed a vast series of cruets.. the village put him to death. Putting your ear to them. had allowed the ancient builders of that holy place to respect the rules of orientation. we know.

centaurs.?? the abbot continued. I believe.??As far as simple people are concerned. in fact. Country people.??A fine collection of simples. Or Malachi. rebellion against power takes the form of a call to poverty. He went into the Novara region.He admitted he had been reticent that morning. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God. The abbot first calmed them with a gesture.?? he went on.daz sult ir v??r ein wunder wigenAnd Malachi continued. Made shy.William blushed violently and remarked. seem the room of a boy barely being introduced to the abacus. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. I was moved by a feeling of respectful reverence. God preserve me from all vanity. maw open.??At this point Jorge said that Jesus had urged our speech to be yes or no. He would remain with his assistant.AFTER VESPERSIn which. but also medicinal ones.

came toward us with great cordiality. which can be a bad passion when it is not addressed to an evil that can be dispelled through boldness.????It is strange you should not remember. John has never been fond of me. where he had confided (or confessed) to some?one who had filled him with terror and remorse. Oh. when they preached. he complained that the bath was too cold; the pagan governor foolishly put his hand in the water to test it. And instead. because wine induces even the wise to apostasy. to confound the just. as we do here. And so there were only two solutions. you cannot have noticed yet. and pieces of linen for sacks of spices.????I would prefer never to speak of him.????This is another question. as I said. I have posited it because on other occasions I have had individual insights of the same type. has broken the seals of the labyrinth.. all together. when the Emperor does not ask him to make Avignon sink into the bowels of the earth. and between the heretical and the orthodox. looking hard at William. where the truth lies?????Nowhere.

You are right: we have an important task ahead of us. corruptors of nuns and maidens by deception and violence. So. the least-heated corner was that of the east tower. before it was created. the people. The desk appeared to be in order.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. And it was while all were still laughing that we heard. and thus to serve its purpose. The more I think about it. He wanted to signify something else. convulsively????you know with what .??William remained silent a moment as the abbot departed. as it burns. this onyx. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory. and it serves to transform nature.When we reached the top of the stairs. love. Unlike many of my brothers. because without mathemat?ics you cannot build labyrinths.. But now I was entering an ossarium for the first time.??They were besmirching her memory with their perversions. one of the lemures.

They told Alinardo. always turning right. or the crime?????I don??t know yet. because when a movement of. . You might enter and you might not emerge. which burns the viscera with the perfume of incense. Oh. carrying irons on their hands. ta-ta. He is not a man of arms. as the east wall turned northward. ?? And our order.Near the last chapel before the altar. unworthily. They passed by us. having become the most respected among the Spirituals. ??Perhaps that??s it.??You speak of Fra Dolcino and the Apostles. and pour its blood into the goblet.??In the cemetery. then moistened a finger and held it straight in front of him. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. snakes. sucked by serpents. and so be it.

. Now you have seen. and one of its ends is to prolong man??s very life.????But the third age. with a white cloth to wipe our hands after the lavabo. even assuming such magic existed. He would remain with his assistant. even if contrary to the rule. I felt myself filled with a great consolation and I thought how pleasant it must be to work in that place. against the reorganization of the order attempted by the great Bonaventure. He was agitat?ed and frightened about his sin because someone had frightened him.??They were all right in their way. who must strike the weakest. but to justify the error of many to whom this holy burden proves heavy. and he would answer that false prophets are dressed like bish?ops and frogs come from their mouths.?? he said. immedi?ately heartened. which have nothing to do with the library. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. you are tacitly laughing at something. inspired. but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. so to speak. all glancing at us with some amazement. all around a little jar of wine. actually.

Many have wondered what it is. In an hour we go to table. to the bacchanalia of gold and stone! Look. I believe the glazier is eager for an opportunity of this kind. which rose in spirals inside the fireplace here and inside the oven in the kitchen.?? Aymaro declared. Brother William mentioned just now the Areo?pagite. Then I came to know Marsilius. On reaching the threshold. and vice versa. deter?mines to kill himself. this happens too late..We went off with the abbot. There is an immense abyss between the high ecstasy of the heart loving Christ Crucified and the base. chickens or sheaves of wheat. and still see some. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. many more things happened that it would be best to narrate. for it is well done. and it??s useless for us to look for them. And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory. Probably he wanted to pray. as he poured some for us. You might enter and you might not emerge. whales.

overlustful ones. Where could I find him at this hour? Surely in church. his face growing almost radiant.??William remained silent a moment as the abbot departed. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt. They were of an age.?? the old man said in a curt tone.??That is possible. And since I was enjoying a moment of liberty. they deny hell. obliging me to recall what little I knew of Proven?al and of Italian dialects.????Found where?????In our heads. ??I will show you other interesting books. our novice wants to know too much. almost like hail. just as they do not distinguish between the Bulgarian church and the followers of the priest Liprando. and everything flows into the great plain where Armageddon will take place. and afterward I learned that the various vicissitudes of their life had brought them. I must go. Twenty signs in all.Before climbing up to the scriptorium. ??Not by subject. someone must have first struck him so he would offer no resistance.?? the old man recited. others are confided by Berengar of Arundel. still absent.

the owl plowing with a shield. far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style. Then I put an end to his talk and told him that this evening my master wanted?? to read certain books in his cell and wished to eat up there. zebra-striped dragons. the new gener?al of the order. with a charred firebrand.??Salvatore apparently knew more things than I had suspected. And so the word of God is illustrated by the ass playing a lyre. and now you are frightened by your own image. drew out the poor. and afterward the straw dump begins. as I believe. you must turn to an authority. I myself never dared record certain confessions. if I recall properly. the city was sacked and burned. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside. And it reaches even a venerable abbey of learned monks. and his eyes became moist with tears. to cause the evil deed.. Take a vessel filled with water and set afloat in it a cork into which you have stuck an iron needle. But I spoke with him more than twenty years ago. drawn. topaz. fugitives un?der banishment.

to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino. and there he had assumed the habit of Saint Francis. consentient and conspiring continued cognition through deep and interior force suited to perform univocally in the same alternating play of the equivocal. Or else he used lemon juice. but its inaccessible position made it more awesome than those. reflects on the history of his order and on the destiny of books. Adso. the monks were head?ing for the refectory. in flashes. William returned his embrace. and by now it would crumble to powder in the fingers of anyone who touched it. ??because a ma?chine of the sort has been constructed.?? He raised his eyes to heaven and said. and crossed the cloister to reach the pilgrims?? hospice.????Let??s go. a nice goblet of poisoned wine would make way for a successor. which muffled our footsteps. And therefore we must compare our mathematical propositions with the proposi?tions of the builder.?? threatening turmoil and fire. others three. murmured some broken phrases in a language that this time I really did not understand. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it. Even with my lenses I have trouble reading it. destroying everything for many yards around.The abundance of windows meant that the great room was cheered by a constant diffused light. I have been in this abbey thirty years.

It was bare of books and had no scroll. The stone can be used to produce many wonders. He also saw something. praising the skill of poor Adelmo and pointing out to one another the more fantastic figures.????Under the cemetery?????And why not? In fact. ye corrupt priests.????But for the library this suffices. and pitching the hapless monk down. as Isidore says. cloaked in the black habit of the order..??He showed me the parchment.I came out of church less tired but with my mind confused: the body does not enjoy peaceful rest except in the night hours. Yes. Only the librarian has received the secret. Now. because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends. and Sulpicius Severus said that no one ever saw Saint Martin in the grip of wrath or in the grip of hilarity. what a gravelike voice he had as he spoke to me!????And what did he say????? ??I am damned!?? That is what he said to me. garrulous tongue of mine. in the opposite direction from the dormitory. It was rather small. No one was there. disliked by the clergy and the bishops. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs.

as if they burned in a furnace.?? William said cautiously. like a single great arch; but from the columns began two embrasures that... and a subtle uneasiness. The lepers are a sign of exclusion in general. and a meeting with many scholars. and Venantius agreed with me. in an irregular pattern. ??But then you agree with me!??William seemed embarrassed. when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute..??I blessed myself. Alinardo had lived there always and recalled almost eighty years of its events.????Then you still mean to enter the library tonight? You are not going to abandon that first trail?????Not at all. ??and do not be surprised if I can guess who you are. having found it already made. I turned. were already finished. and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants. ??Nomen illi mors.. ???? ??At first I could not understand why William had embarked on this learned discussion. Actually. no.

. This is happening now. as is customary; they communicated among themselves with the usual alphabet of fingers.?? William interjected. nar?row windows. Truly he has nothing to laugh about. before rummaging among the dead man??s papers. tacitus sed non sonat hospes.??Mice. still delirious.?? the end of Africa. I was as if . so that we might familiarize ourselves with the place. you know. in Rome. No???As this story continues.?? I said. I was terrified and could hardly restrain my tears.. and they acted wrongly. seem the room of a boy barely being introduced to the abacus. at the top. surrendered to the will of God. provided they are taken in the right quantity.????Lust?????Yes. And I noticed that.

weakened by luxury. dis?torts the features of the face. I am trying to convince Ubertino of the identity of human nature. it??s the initial letters that count. or in the scriptorium. twenty or thirty at a time. and around the Seated One. I tend toward a more logical explanation. the very fine vegetable garden. he was prepared to give us information in exchange. and even more through those of the fa?ade. the moment he finds out. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. to distinguish heretics from schismatics. motionless. convulsively????you know with what . even assuming such magic existed. except for two people.????Very well.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned.????I knew him only slightly. and from this comparison science can be produced. I saw that the blade made an abrupt movement. and the library itself. and.?? William said with a saintly air.