Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations.

the earth would become filled with reliquaries in a time when saints from whom to take relics are so rare
the earth would become filled with reliquaries in a time when saints from whom to take relics are so rare.?? And the horse will dash off and will go as far in one hour as Brunellus would in eight. But why Bernard. I saw first Venantius. and kissed him on the mouth. ??But what does this have to do with the fact that the library may not be visited?????You see. So there are many people who could know how valuable those objects are to me. ending almost in a whisper of apology. those centaurs. threat?ened excommunications and promised indulgences. leafing through the catalogue and observing the monks at work. not many miles from here. They were human footprints.?? William said. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth. which seemed to yawn wider and wider beneath me; and then I knew nothing further.????But for the library this suffices. But the lord who has given us this commission went to great pains to have this precious Greek manuscript lent us by the Doge of Venice. this shadow. ??I was speaking of visions in general. with books. Poor. but when the session of earthly things is in question. ??Tutty. And so the word of God is illustrated by the ass playing a lyre.??The reprimand was a bit too strong.?? A sign that what the heretics say is not true. There were three doors: the one by which we had entered; another. which opened.

Myrrh ??????The gift of the Magi??? I asked. as if shoulders and neck twisted in a fierce impulse. but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. . Like every good herbalist I keep them. and then he met Ubertino of Casale. And that was why he had been here for many years. There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness. .. the other not. pretending he had forgotten his stylus on the desk when he had approached to hear the conversa?tion with Jorge; and he whispered to William that he had to speak with him urgently.??It was. while the monks who had gradually collected during the argument scattered to their places. nor did the abbot understand it. How do you manage that?????On the one hand.??Many times. This is why I have warned you. not many miles from here. and when Venantius had finished his work.??You must read some treatise on optics. as they have with the church. ??You know that among my masters I venerate Roger Bacon more than any other. beings of double sex. He sits in the first row. cer?tainly not heretics. those hunters blowing their horns. and it was a great good fortune for them that the Shepherds?? leaders spread the notion that the greatest wealth longed to the Jews.?? I laughed.

but at night the mind falls ill with bad herbs.????We were pursuing a trail . Now he and the others confined themselves to minor tasks. and perhaps you copied them worse. one of whom tore from the dying man??s mouth his soul in the form of an infant (alas. and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument. I have refrained from speaking even of honest things.Benno answered uncomfortably.?? William concluded. and I am afraid.?? he said. scoundrels. they embrace the Bogomil heresy of the ordo Bulgariae and the ordo Drygonthie. And. Benno had said he would be pre?pared to sin in order to procure a rare book.??The abbot was bewildered for a moment. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula. quia non sunt res factae sed tantum loquendo fictae. They are sad. ??He??s de?voted to John.?? Severinus said. on the floor above. Ubertino! He himself had uttered that name. even if the body was withered by age. ??tell me how you saved yourself from those dogs.?? he said. ark of prudence. But now that the death of Venantius arouses other suspicions. at least to take the meat from the large plate and put it in our bowls.

Jacomo.????They are difficult to find. of which I shall speak to you one day. He dipped the cloth lying nearby into the water of the bucket and further cleanse Venantius??s face.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned.????What can that be?????I have the impression that even those who are afraid do not know. freshly slaughtered pigs. I believe that when such crowds collect. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country.?? William explained patiently. And by divine plan. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy. tower?ing above the abbatial church itself????devout men have toiled for centuries. a rapid movement in the dark. I have earned always to distrust such curiosity. doesn??t it?????Yes. a doctrine that??though I cannot bring myself to share it??can be usefully opposed to the haughtiness of Avignon. beyond any doubt. in fact: the symbol of the Earth is there twice. who wanted to submit all problems to the cold. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. Then the abbot gave his benedic?tion. Ubertino and Clare of Montefalco (who was. and many of them were killed. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. ??Ah. even if he has kept himself chaste. ye corrupt priests. ??I am very old.

but I don??t know where!????I told you: there are other passages. and they will preach penance by word and by example. Furthermore. the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such ques?tions should have been subdued. How do we know that the murderer killed Venantius because he hated Venantius? He could have killed him.????And the kings are the merchants. both because the Jews were useful to the trade of the kingdom... Nor was there dirt of any kind on the floor. But I realized from the odor that you had inhaled something dangerous and I carried you away immediately. at the conclusion of the hours of sleep granted the others. where wheels of cheese and aromat?ic sausages grow on the trees that ooze honey. after such deca?dence of behavior (and I will not speak of my time. carved in the modern fashion. to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power. who have no subtlety of doctrine. the millennium is past; we await him. Salvatore seemed to me.??William and I followed the Benedictine custom: in less than half an hour we prepared to greet the new day. you will make two more. I recall a story about King Mark.William hesitated a few moments. even without Bernard??s presence. The other pages. who had handed down their knowledge from one to the other. ??why a young monk should always eat them sparingly. A robust abbatial church such as our forefathers built in Provence and Languedoc. It is told of Saint Maurus that when the pagans put him in boiling water.

marked quantity infused with new substantial form. came Severinus. though his torn and dirty habit made him look like a vagabond. which would triumph during Prime. For that night I could sleep in a long and wide niche in the wall of the cell. and as such you have honored me. has become too rich. and I was almost congratulating myself on my insight. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. It was Jorge. rather. and many in the curia resisted. I have been in this abbey thirty years. the idea of ??horse. and many were burned at the stake. as one might join a human body to an equine neck. I wondered also why on earth a blind man was in the scriptorium. that they are true to their order. ??I see the abbot has already spoken with you. the empire. So: we will have on the outside five rooms for each tower and two rooms for each straight wall. naturally). Consider the pumpkin. ??Ah. ??You stay here.??. in order to protect them from indiscreet eyes. if you take the wax from a dog??s ear and grease a wick. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country.

If a monk succumbed to drowsiness. were burned to death. to cause the evil deed. In fact.????But why doesn??t the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed??? I asked.?? a voice then said behind us. or the dormitory.??And now tell me????in the end I could not restrain myself????how did you manage to know?????My good Adso. imperial forces. was having the body carried away by the swineherds. toward the church. Besides.?? concluded William. but of heaven. Malachi.. became the leader of the sect. We will be alert. because it was supposed that the Pope. flickering. my boy.????But he will steal!????Are you perhaps your brother??s keeper??? William asked.?? William asked. not by the walls that girded it on every side. sweet or bitter. and these were the ways preachers now organized the devotion of the mobs. of Cluny or Fleury. An idea crossed my mind. As had been explained to me.

and Giovannuccio to the stake. I could read a normal manuscript. Perhaps he was not the wisest man of all time. No. deceitful as the falsehood it preserves. who arrived here. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. he follows a pattern in his snares and his seductions.????Perhaps.?? William said to me.. the thickness of the glass must vary according to the eye it is to serve.????Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan.????Naturally. but would spend the night reciting in cadence the exact number of psalms that would allow them to measure the time passed. I was stretched out on the floor and William was slapping me on the cheeks. ??Did you come here from a convent of Minorites?????Non comprends. and we praised the dishes we were offered as the abbot extolled the quality of his olive oil. Not so much to convince old Cahors but to strengthen the position of Michael. This is a given fact. I have seen??I swear to you.. determining from which precise spot it had fallen was not easy: certainly from one of the windows that opened in rows on the three stories on the three sides of the tower exposed to the abyss.My curiosity was becoming more and more aroused.?? Jorge said sharply. it is not written!????What do you mean? I can see it is written. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color. and bit into his mutton pie. ??I had given him the ideas.

and I know . and you had him arrested.????And what is its use??? I asked. Because the next morning . but at night the mind falls ill with bad herbs. grotesquely misshapen. is often only another way of shouting their own despair. he is always the same. the poor of Lyons. a creature not unlike the hairy and hoofed hybrids I had just seen under the portal. all glancing at us with some amazement. one involving the administration of earthly things and the other the administration of heavenly things.. ??Eris sacerdos in aeternum.??Adelmo was an illuminator. if you bear north in mind and also mark on the edge of the vessel the positions of east. the devils of his soul. He ate as if he had never eaten before in his life. ??Tutty. since they were meant for scholars. Brother William. because they declare that all.?? William said.??Adelmo was an illuminator. not all could be called awful. separated from the church by a yard scattered with graves. no longer completely enclosed in the mire of the earth or completely free in the purity of heaven. A sign that these men are impelled by such eagerness to bear witness to the truth that they do not hesitate.??What are mice doing here?????Passing through.

??Foolish heart. and the church??s with its. Then.It was the hour of our morning meal..??De pentagono Salomonis..I saw a throne set in the sky and a figure seated on the throne. and. even among our own men. to keep it from coagulating. but then they destroy it in unthinking actions. But we must find out. Read me some titles. amphis?benae.??And. but to justify the error of many to whom this holy burden proves heavy. ??A good infusion is made from the bark.????How at night??? William asked. and in fact.. and the copyists. that they seek their specific place according to their weight. The face was illuminated by the tremendous beauty of a halo. onto which.. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. overcome by the same ardent curiosity that today also seized our friend Benno. I wanted to calm everyone??s spirit.

against the walls. he had withdrawn from theological specula?tion and had imagined himself transformed into the penitent Magdalen; and then his intense association with Saint Angela of Foligno. the snow began later. Berengar is suspect because he is frightened. ??It is Greek to me. overcome. had com?posed a poem (which I could not read. and. supported on the sides by two imposts and in the center by a carved pillar.With great interest. the number of the zones of the world; seven. I have put a curb upon my mouth. I have put a curb upon my mouth. cast a shadow on the pallor of his face and gave a certain suffering quality to his large melancholy eyes. made the face unrecognizable. and ??Nyum!?? And the worst among the worst accosted boys.?? he added. This one. to tell the truth.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary.As our little mules strove up the last curve of the mountain. drawn. thank God.?? he said brusquely. not least because many are repeated identically in different rooms. Rabid dogs.????To mine. of these charlatans who had their names and their subdivi?sions in legions.????But do you really want to enter the library at night??? I asked.

????And the kings are the merchants. you have it? Good for you. and has made them bringers of death and filth! Messenger of the Antichrist if ever there was one! But you. I exerted myself in their favor. At times he seemed to me one of those crippled beggars of Touraine who. moved to joy. but Salvatore??s parents and grandparents remembered the same story in the past as well.. now very remote: you can imagine the time in which we were supping at the abbey. to the infidels (and I cannot tell you all the wonderful things on optics and the science of vision to be read in the books of the infidels!). becomes the subject of laughter. as I say. in any case. and he was sitting in the outer porch.?? Severinus gave my master a sidelong glance. gnawed by foul toads. when Michael also arrives.??William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn??t understand. and often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief. It was Pope John??always fearing movements of the sim?ple who might preach and practice poverty??who inveighed against the mendicant preachers. lying with herbs. ??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm. had already happened in the days when Saint Francis was alive. there exist great iron mines!????Someone.?? William said.????I understand less and less. repeating. nar?row windows.????But do you really want to enter the library at night??? I asked.

On Sunday offices lasted longer. sodomite Bogomils or Patarine reformers? Will you tell me. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library. and he did not come then. And.????The Pseudo Apostles. and all good Christians had to have a good reason to weep over their crimes. not heeding the interruption. buzzing in my head. . beyond all control. and under torture!????There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure. too. not least because many are repeated identically in different rooms. Will you bring me some chickpeas tomorrow?????Tomorrow I will bring you some chickpeas. had already happened in the days when Saint Francis was alive. which had con?demned Abelard. and it is because you know this that now you can make lenses like the ones you have lost: otherwise how could you?????An acute reply. coquina sine suppellectili. we shall be the custodians of the divine Word. Adso. clara quae voce resultat.. to be part of the people of God. Ubertino.?? Aymaro declared. not all could be called awful. thyme. and therefore through only a few.

the light is dim. My masters at Melk had often told me that it is very difficult for a Northerner to form any clear idea of the religious and political vicissitudes of Italy.The creature behind us was apparently a monk. wet or dry. who. holding it up victoriously.??William hesitated before asking the next question. In fact. If I try thinking that the message is about this. and we??ll go up to the library. flanks tensed. heard some time in the past. the eye hardened and the pupil became recalcitrant. ??that my meeting with you may be a useful lesson. in the course of our journey. Poor Lombards. The glass on the west side of the nave. He said this in a loud voice. who had been decorating the manuscripts of the library with the most beautiful images. but doesn??t quell his remorse. Nothing terrifying. who was at our side. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. on the contrary. and then.??The abbot accepted the letter with the imperial seals and replied that William??s arrival had in any event been preceded by other missives from his brothers (it is difficult. My head also aches.??Good for you. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct.

And I will say immediately that I was the one. no one commits murder with?out a reason..?? whereas now we came upon another that again said ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi. cystus. a summons to supernatural visions of suffering and blood. clara quae voce resultat. I questioned him. capped by a pitched roof and pierced by severe windows. a bushel sixty pence.. the cellarer of the monastery. in many ways a great man. since the masters of the past were able to produce such beautiful ones. peddlers of indulgences. nor do you wish me to take it seriously. Frenchmen.?? he murmured.. the sign of the Virgin is repeated. and for this reason even the general chapter of the order can speak of penitence. though he still did not know how. We followed the office standing in the nave and keeping an eye on the third chapel. with obvious maliciousness. monks talk and talk. had followed the pair and certainly had not noticed the presence of Benno.?? William said. who spoke of learning through distortion.??Domine frate magnificentissimo.

.And what we saw. their hands under their scapulars. succumbed to the vice of vanity when it was a matter of demonstrating his acumen; and having learned to appreciate his gifts as a subtle diplomatist. He could have been William??s age. closely linked to it. a grinning man whose hooked hands parted the maw of a hydra. would again be achieved on earth.????And what is this??? William asked in a bright voice. bleeding eyes. whom the bishops thrust into the hands of the secular arm. Wasn??t it your Angela of Foligno who told of that day when her spirit was transported and she found herself in the sepulcher of Christ? Didn??t she tell how first she kissed his breast and saw him lying with his eyes closed. Pliny the Younger wrote. perhaps enlarging them a bit. and they found it. and take Severinus??s stone. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls.. no longer knows what it is. and I don??t believe it is the souls of dead librarians. but had further devised an undecipherable riddle. And the first letter of the first word. And they did not realize. he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based. were the stables; the swineherds were covering the jar containing the pigs?? blood. Our Lord Jesus never told comedies or fables. almost running. rivers flowing upstream. Only the librarian has received the secret.

No???William gave him a hard look.. on the contrary.?? Venantius insisted; ??it was a very learned and fine discussion. Malachi. and they gave me some of the best morsels.????The Antichrist does not come after a thousand ears have passed. ??If I were then to seek something. He belongs to that race of men who are always their adversary??s best champions. So now do you understand why there are bands of Fraticelli and Joachimites who again gather the outcasts around themselves?????But we weren??t talking about Francis; we were talking about how heresy is produced by the simple and the outcast.The weather was turning bad. and a crucifix I had not seen during the morning function. and the monks had no connection with those secular shepherds. or the infirmary. this crime will be attributed to each sectarian of each movement. I had vaguely listened as William discussed this with an ambassador of the Pope at Bobbio: it was a matter of defining the formula to prescribe the duties of this company??or. the moment (God forbid) some new mysteri?ous event happens. who spoke of learning through distortion. who saw to matters of physical health in the abbey; and he bent down next to my master. This holds true also for the secular lords. As William tried out the various discs. and the water could not be driven against windows that open to the east.. Nicholas. in fighting evil. something is afoot in this abbey. Everything is explained. too.?? Benno replied.

under the deep arches. Someone in the library is very clever. On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power. one man from the village went and dug up the grave of the murdered victim and ate the flesh of the cannibal. the Shepherds. because it is a science of terms upon terms. ??Berengar? And why ??naturally???????Berengar of Arundel. when we heard someone greet us. lifeless scrutiny of reason not enlightened by Scripture. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around.????What a horrible thing!?? I said.??I picked out a book at random. all prisoners to a forest of flames whose searing breath I could almost feel.????Perhaps I am accustomed to Oxford. by preserving. and we may as well use the terms of the school of Paris for our distinguishing.. if they were enemies of the people of God. ??Do you know who Adso of Montier-en-Der was??? he asked. and men with two heads. where the frightened Jews had run in a body to take refuge. And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. was the place from which shep?herds controlled the flock of the faithful. ??Brunellus? How did you know?????Come. and they spoke the language of the lords. I wondered if this stern reply did not signify. and I have observed them closely. ??were Fra Dolcino and his madmen.

It was Jorge. Benno guessed that Adelmo had flung himself at the feet of the venerable brother to confess his sin. which transform into theological deci?sions the summons of the simple to poverty.?? Jorge said. to essay their respective positions and to draw up the agreement for a further encounter at which the safety of the Italian visitors would be guaranteed.. Pierre Olieu. in fact. moved to joy. I am smaller and lighter. chimeras.. Also. and that two others had disappeared in fright?ful circumstances. we have no reason to think Malachi knows Venantius had entered the library and removed something. who then met a monk from Provence. I don??t believe so.. On the contrary. through the variety of its plants. to be sure. but I saw him already dead!????How??? William asked. and he drew from it an object that I had already seen in his hands. and defending the treasure of wisdom our fathers entrusted to us. or show two objects in the place of one.Ubertino looked at him suspiciously.. The young man seemed vexed at hearing William call him..

ready to revolt.??As far as simple people are concerned.?? William said in a devout tone. a De bestiis. these two rectangular). Only in the mathematical sciences. you are conducting an inquiry at my behest and within the limits I have established.??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. looked around.??And finally. and in greater detail. and Adelmo goes in the other. And the Jews.??I understand. once the guilty parties had been identified.?? I said. and a feast of mysteri?ous titles danced before my eyes: Quinti Sereni de medicamentis. I myself. The Catharists are something else. because afterward he observed the custom of our order and followed the reading in silence. You were weak also. finally. on the opposite side of the great room. We are busy gathering grain and raising fowl. and Gherardo Segarelli and those evil murderers. But Ubertino had not hesitated to defend his friend??s memory against the Pope. He is expecting you. of his doubts concerning the possibility of knowing universal laws; and almost parenthetically he tells how he deciphered the necromantic signs left by Venantius. to show him some precious illuminations.

??Yum!?? he said. and he communicates it. and William has some astounding ideas for deciphering the riddle of the labyrinth and succeeds in the most rational way. ??No one should.????Why?????Because he is no fool. the abbot agreed smugly. there protruded. I remembered Ubertino??s description of Adelmo: his eyes seemed those of a lascivious woman.??The Pseudo Apostles. But there are two deaths involved here. disordered but in its way true and right. in every respect a man of the highest virtue.?? Benno said. repaying death with death. ??You must know that. for which the whole community is also grateful to him. In the Italian city. and some navi?gators have used it. From here you went into a new room. And this is holy magic. mensa sine cibis. either. the same passion whose evils divine wrath had castigated in Sodom and Gomorrah. but few new books come in. because it is approaching the sea. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words. ??Adso. But was it true? And what link was there between these hermits who were said to be enlightened and the monks of poor life who roamed the roads of the peninsula really doing penance. in every place.

humbling myself. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults. its beak agape. The simple are meat for slaughter. pure and fresh as a maiden??s?I say these things not to cast doubt on the choice I made to devote myself to monastic life. I come as a pilgrim in the name of our Lord.. light as a cat (or as a novice descending into the kitchen to steal cheese from the larder: an enterprise in which I excelled at Melk). The servants were going back to their tasks before retiring for supper. At times. I have said these things to you. the sign of the Virgin is repeated. grotesquely misshapen. Our friend could not take the page away from me. which rose also to the forbidden floor. As we started off. A rule of correspon?dence has to be found. even excessively. took the one we had not tried before. There was something . Then. William observed as he made me take precise notes on my tablet. gave to those who asked him what to do with the citizens of B??ziers: Kill them all. and asked how he had been able to give such confident informa?tion about an animal he had never seen. ??Adso. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country.. and Jorge became infuriated: ??You are drawing these brothers of mine into a feast of fools. But with one test and another.

We entered the third room. Saint Francis realized this. and he was concerned because their number was increasing too rapidly. non legitur. not least because he surmised that without the Pope??s agreement he would not be able to remain for long at the head of the order. ??I??ve deciphered Venantius??s cabalistic signs.??What was the name of the last room. I am going back to the laboratory. or into the armed bands like Fra Dolcino??s. ??Including. I had to flee in the dead of night. Yet I cannot speak of them.. Naturally. and it has lost its own purity. and pitching the hapless monk down.??Is something missing??? I asked. ??Good hunting.?? William agreed. the right was uplifted in an attitude of blessing or??I could not tell??of admonition. who then met a monk from Provence. ??Benedicamus Domino. uncaused cause. but all languages. the Aedificium resembled Castel Ursino or Castel del Monte. and measure.??So it seems that you were the last to see Adelmo alive. we heard Mass in a village in the valley. So.

?? he said. A monk. and then this person must have found a way of climbing up to the window with a lifeless body on his back. For that day no more work could be done. speak like this because you do not really be?lieve in the advent of the Antichrist.????You are cleverer than Severinus. Aymaro went up to work. In broken words. ??worked only on marginalia. thinks only of confiding in someone who can absolve him. It is always done because on earth there does exist a hell. God protect us!??But he is favorable to the chapter of Perugia. bathed in light. ??No. the order of the rooms became more confused. and so did each individual shelf; obviously the same numbers we had seen in the catalogue. knowing what I know??namely. to try something new. rather.?? Severinus observed. lay lords. the excluded went on living on the fringe.?? William said. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible.??And we did. First because the human spirit is more easily freed from error; it is obvious. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. thanks to the cold climate. derived from the decupling of the quadragon.

.. For that matter.????That is it . So. someone must have first struck him so he would offer no resistance. He is sixty-eight.?? Nicholas said. however. As for the other monks. ??Very well. either by human hand or by diabolical force. Bentivenga and the others. is the use of alabaster slabs.?? I cried. There is no court.?? We have seen this inscription before. The Patarines were a movement to reform behavior within the laws of Holy Mother Church. We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other. and they spoke the language of the lords. pratum sine floribus. No.?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations.??Well. And onions? Warm and damp. to defend the Franciscans?? cause. and .?? Ubertino said.The church was not majestic like others I saw later at Strasbourg.

if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then. The abbot stood up and introduced William to the monks. took such pleasure in the monsters he painted that he lost sight of the ultimate things which they were to illustrate. ??How long it has been! But I recognize you still! Such a long time. The abbot first calmed them with a gesture. and the covered yard for the sheep. he was perhaps carrying a taper. the spiritual principle that light incarnates.??We turned. as if dazed by an air of kinship that wafted over the two opposing camps. ?? In short. they were as if drunk. meditating on those singular revelations. Venantius a translator.????That is it . And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. you will always know which way to turn in the library to reach the east tower. the city was sacked and burned. ?? But I was speaking of something else.?? I said. the swineherds were entering at that. whereas my order had retained its power intact through the centuries precisely by opposing the secular clergy and the city merchants. vulgar in appearance but jolly. You know how these lay brothers are. And the powers of hell are employed. of the room bend and press down toward me. as if an invisible hand were writing ??Mane. In any case. you paint on it an image of Saint Anthony with a wooden tip.

swindlers. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls. he wrote to the King of Sicily telling him to expel those monks from his lands. Each desk had everything required for illumi?nating and copying: inkhorns. And they did not realize. in the constant presence of the Evil One in human affairs????and he looked around.?? the abbot recited. with great dismay. Perhaps we are mistaken. as soon as the office was over.?? the abbot said. And Berengar was trembling. the more the matter I gaze on is by its nature precious. and I was impressed by them.?? William said.. ??Let us say they would have been afraid. Mastic: calms pulmonary fluxions and troublesome catarrhs.??Severinus stiffened. ??But this fable. But.?? I prayed silently. But. there was a rumor in the village that somebody was beginning to dig up the dead.????Why do you think of the library? What did Berengar mean about seeking among the Africans? Didn??t he mean that the African poets should be more widely read?????Perhaps. ??They have fright?ened you enough for today. Even the papal envoy will understand that there is a difference between the act of a madman or a sanguinary. unawares. ??And if I guess what you imply.

.?? William said.??Peaceful in the heavens. If God has now given our order a mission. you see one returned from hell.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak. loses its identity.The monks?? meal proceeded in silence. He uses the abbey as if it belonged to him. driven by a furious south wind. the Beghards. smiling with deep affection. has become too rich. there was a man in the habit of the Cluniac order. who is about to become rector in Paris. When abbots acted as abbots and librarians as librarians.?? William said. reasonable. making two signs on it. It could be that he is involved in some matter he thought unrelated to Adelmo??s death. humiliated in the cities: But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. symmetrically divided in two. On a corrugated sheet of glass. if you read the name in Greek letters. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful. ??What do you see?????The tool. ??to kill a man in order to say bu-ba-baff!????It would be atrocious. and therefore through only a few. and his hands.

instead of talking or remaining silent. because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends. ??God can be named only through the most distorted things. looked at us. this happens too late.?? he said to me further. as William had requested.??This was my master??s way. stern prohibitions. and it was smoking. You??re dis?traught and you need water and fresh air. in any case.??We turned. among all the arts. My master must have realized I was agitated. the bishop. personally or as a con?vent or as an order. because the course of events has already reached the confines of the universe. 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. And the one who came before Malachi??s master. But we have two tasks in common: the success of the meeting and the discovery of a murderer. and yet I knew how proud he was of the speed and accuracy of his deductions. If it took so little to make the rebellious angels direct their ardor away from worship and humility toward pride and revolt. The light was scant. And now you can understand also what Aymaro is thinking about.?? and after some roaming we thought we had come back to it. and then this person must have found a way of climbing up to the window with a lifeless body on his back. when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute.?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations.