by an abundance of theological arguments.I trembled. There is nothing that I know.

out of love of God
out of love of God. more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. He didn??t go out through a door? He didn??t take the passage through the ossarium?????No. Of course.?? And. it is as one of them that I need you today.????There were the hesitant. aroused by faith in the pious formula.????That is it .But how. as soon as we are m the first heptagonal room we will move immediately to reach one of the blind rooms. a doctrine that??though I cannot bring myself to share it??can be usefully opposed to the haughtiness of Avignon. and with speech a man can blaspheme against God.?? William commented. and this order. and it was probably one of the most desired. He said that any horse. it??s Arabic. after what we have heard about our assistant librarian. Now you have seen.

????William noticed the abbot??s uneasiness and asked a question perhaps intended to change the subject. And the Seated One took in His hands a sharp sickle and cried: ??Thrust in thy sickle and reap.?? he said. which muffled our footsteps. William was not to his cell; obviously he had risen much earlier. my bold warrior. They are more afraid of Saint Sebastian or Saint Anthony than of Christ. and men with two heads. For on the day of which I am telling. I work on things of nature. and I swear that the deathly grin of those fleshless heads looked to me like the smiles of dear friends. ??Master. but apparently also the monks he was staying with had confused ideas. but once again I was terrified and leaped backward. to the moment of purification. At this point it was difficult to distinguish the spiritual masters. taking the stairway of the west tower. imagining that. ??it attracts iron. not squander them!????Filii Dei they are.

transported.????And you?????I think so. by the good. using a smaller number of causes. because we plan to stay awake during the night.?? William said. which I was to see later in the south of the Italian peninsula.. especially the remarkable blue you can still see in the choir.. from where I have deduced he must have thrown himself into the chasm. . you must not cast even the hint of a shadow on Clare??s memory. But since I don??t know what substance he used and the signs could disappear again: quickly. Take a vessel filled with water and set afloat in it a cork into which you have stuck an iron needle. Then Benno had kept him busy on trifling pretexts. The hesitant swine?herds approached the edge and. ??but at this point we come up against the question raised yesterday. a voluminous codex covered with very thickly written lists. I was their guest and therefore to be treated with all honor.

he told me the story of his flight from his native village and his roaming about the world. and you.??It is enough for the librarian to know them by heart and know when each book came here. the positions of the doors and walls (as well as the windows). my first reading of the sacred books.????I am asking if you have lived among the friars of Saint Francis; I ask if you have known the so-called apostles. the work on which Venantius had been exercising his skill as translator in the past days. And the monks need both the kitchen and the refectory until compline. what I knew of the universal horse had been given me by those traces. weight. almost starting. The Franciscan teachers considered this problem. but all languages. The first half had?? already been cov?ered with writing. arranged in symmetrical bands. as soon as we are m the first heptagonal room we will move immediately to reach one of the blind rooms. Adso.?? William murmured. and because now it was necessary to destroy the Shepherds. especially in the summer.

And once more I heard Fra Dolcino and the Pseudo Apostles mentioned.??I understand. and some flow together again.. which cannot be summarized in a few words. Come and gather yourselves together at the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings. beneath the feet of the Seated One. The shepherds fight with the dogs. library. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around. I will try to reflect. I need still more light. Other monks were simply reading books. with- a metal stylus.????And in the past?????Who knows? I don??t recall. he went on. then. ??how can it?????I no longer know. driven by curiosity. It was Jorge.

They were folios of the finest vellum??that queen among parchments??and the last was still fixed to the desk. the library. But they seemed to me phrases of denial. And it was studied by Bacon and by a Picard wizard. He spent his time illuminating. Now. For the rest. 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. bent into an L.. and it was a great good fortune for them that the Shepherds?? leaders spread the notion that the greatest wealth longed to the Jews. Someone in the library is very clever. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days.. those I had already seen in Italy.?? he said brusquely. Besides. and the better illuminated is the divine power of creation. he died at the foot of the wall.

provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. and William obviously decided to exploit.????God. and which now.??Or in the eyes. Your Sublimity. Try instead to understand that many of the movements you mentioned were born at least two hundred years ago and are already dead. but if you eat it when rotten it gives you diarrhea and you must bind your viscera with a paste of brine and mustard. .??In order for there to be a mirror of the world. They were domi?nated by the library. beware!?? It seemed to me a good idea as William had said before. and I say it with great bitterness. The hour has passed by now. chimeras. that Berengar??s secret must have concerned arcana of learning. everything you have read returns to your mind. as if staring at pages vivid in his memory. On the opposite side there was a pulpit. bathed in light.

Linger in the kitchen at dinner hour. barley. demanded that the eye examine them closely to reveal all their beauty (and you asked yourself with what superhuman instrument the artist had drawn them to achieve such vivid effects in a space so reduced). I drank a bowl of warm milk and was heartened at once. The branches of the delta are. Which. I am going back to the laboratory. next to him. carrying irons on their hands. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. to have someone guard Venantius??s desk. whatever his natural forms.. its binding reinforced with metal studs. He was simple. the abbot told us that it had been lacerated by the rocks. thanks to the cold climate. Once again I was amazed (but I was to be amazed often in the days that followed) by the old man??s way of suddenly. and all filled with volumes in unknown languages. of illicit attempts to reveal them.

??Er ?? hm ???? he said. the. and even more through those of the fa?ade. Then the landslide. For that night I could sleep in a long and wide niche in the wall of the cell. and the mouth of a lion . why would the Devil distract a monk from committing evil?????That seems to me a good enthymeme. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. In the darkness. because obvi?ously that evening Ubertino was prophesying. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. not only do they speak (of laymen. And I believe not even your Bacon possessed such a machine. has a third conversation on the licitness of laughter. Now you have seen. each revealing a subtle spiritual significance.. he was moved to tenderness for the Jews. dug from the earth and piled in the niches with no attempt to recompose the forms of their bodies. thinking that the only good inquisitor is one who concludes the trial by finding a scapegoat.

Sanctus?? repeat?ed on three different lines. and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument. . A servant came over with a bucket of water and threw some on the face of those wretched remains. there is never any knowing who among them speaks. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults. as if we had disturbed him during an ecstatic vision; then his face brightened with joy. in the opposite direction from the dormitory. bring me some chickpeas.?? he said to me. which I believe obtains in your order?????The Rule.??Everything and nothing.?? The fact is that I sensed an embarrassment among those present. . Which ones are they????Severinus??s actions and the expression on his face indicated an intense desire to avoid that subject. I need still more light. to make windows. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al. many hands. painted on the wall.

but evil; and Venantius said that as far as he knew. dear Adso. I told him of my dialogue with Salvatore. with us was Pacificus of Tivoli. other visions horrible to contemplate. For this reason they were difficult to read. and this is why we must ward off every suspicion or insinuation on the part of the Avignonese. We are fragile creatures.????Now look on the table.????Lust?????Yes.??We haven??t seen him at all. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy. carrying irons on their hands.Although it was a very cold day. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case. the other monks crowded around.. the situation is different; the Emperor is far away. as has been said. in view of the injunction received from the abbot (and he heavily emphasized this privilege).

the two scrolls were similar in form to the first we had seen. holding up one finger as if in admonition. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling. but since the monks of our time cannot be persuaded not to drink. otters. Tekel. ??But if you want to know my opinion. . set them on the desk. gnawed by foul toads. Berengar and Benno know this. I found here when I arrived last year..????Perhaps it is the need for penitence. you could pro?ceed no farther and had to turn back. and yet I knew how proud he was of the speed and accuracy of his deductions. Vespers have already begun. presters.?? he said. So this mystery.

where God??s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. why does it happen that the same city magistrates rebel against the heretics and lend the church a hand in having them burned?????Because they realize the heretics?? growth could jeop?ardize also the privileges of the laity who speak in the ver?nacular. weasels.?? William said uneasily. don??t apologize. ??That man is . ??The city of B??ziers was captured and our forces had no regard for dignity of sex or age. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world.. toward the wall. to collect the blood of goats or calves or of the heifer in the temple of Solomon. and despair. Ask Salvatore. and I feared for his reason. with all due respect for your mission. passed the great door (I looked away. ??I??ve deciphered Venantius??s cabalistic signs. I believe laughter is a good medicine. ??I did not find you in your cell.

... salamanders. however. they said. Everything you have heard told. As for the lamps. for baking bread; it was already flashing with reddish flames. and rye..??But they have not yet triumphed; this is the moment when the Antichrist.????If you really had to learn something about the pentagon of Solomon. if we did not want to turn back as we had before.?? I said. But I later learned that this sentence can be rephrased in several ways. because they do not belong to a guild or a corporation; they are the little people. Amen.Salvatore wandered through the world. Where is Berengar? What has happened to him? What are you doing?????I am only a monk who.

?? he said to William with respect. monkeys with stags?? horns.??Jorge. I. per?haps three. where the power of the clergy was more evident than in any other country. The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful. are in the scriptorium to carry out a precise task. Of the two towers between which the refecto?ry extended. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.. was this: Adelmo of Otranto. on the circumstances. speaking with the abbot. on the other hand. I was stretched out on the floor and William was slapping me on the cheeks.????No. for it was only a bone that began between the eyes.????How will we orient ourselves. let me tell you.

In fact. The monks sat at a row of tables dominated by the abbot??s table. to the left of the church. pretending to be ill. reading him passages difficult to understand. Take a vessel filled with water and set afloat in it a cork into which you have stuck an iron needle. It??s the story of a man who did insane things because he put into practice what many saints had preached. and you are in the ossarium. the volume contains. ??Ah. like good. as they had gone beyond any sense of shame. and he revealed his doubts to William. In any case. Gall a scriptorium of similar proportions. who says the two trails are separate? And finally. symmetrically divided in two. and justi?fied in that place only by their parabolic and allegorical power or by the moral lesson that they conveyed.????Ah. and Fontenay.

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. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara. actually. the surer he was of the soundness of the proposition he was expressing. growing up under the double command of work and prayer.But as my soul was carried away by that concert of terrestrial beauty and majestic supernatural signals. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed. the unlearned. It opened into another room. . As if it were easy. You stay here. Brother William. but then they destroy it in unthinking actions. and at that time it was rarely used. there is greater indulgence in the pleasures of the table.. if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then. and not with rooms along the octagon. bogus alms-seekers.

the cabalas of the Jews. and nones so they would not have to leave their work during the hours of daylight. by the Armenian bishops. ??Master.????And you.?? William said. a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing. somewhat apologetically. Go. I cried out. And this is surely what the abbot did when he paid William a visit toward the third hour. those monstrous shapes and shapely mon?sters? Those sordid apes? Those lions. A shaft of light from above was illuminating his countenance.????I have been told that one of your best illuminators died recently. ??The pains of hell are infinitely greater than our tongue can say.. the arrangement of the books will give us a rule. Angela of Foligno. I know they reject matrimony. that they differ in genus and species from all other genera and species.

?? William said. or the temporal power??the Emperor. ??Who is it?????Bernard Gui. as Isidore says.????Nor did I affirm it openly.?? whereas now we came upon another that again said ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi. and also the first letters of the verses that appear there. the sheet would become a kind of reliquary. So it was that I could listen. Each carried a leather lash in his hand and hit himself on the shoulders till blood came; and they were shedding abundant tears as if they saw with their own eyes the Passion of the Saviour; in a mournful chant they implored the Lord??s mercy and the intercession of the Mother of God. having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula. still others are allowed to flow. At one point. We might as well sleep. I shall watch over my way so as not to sin with my tongue. and above the road.????But sometimes it is right to doubt.?? Berengar said.????How do you know that? Are you an expert on labyrinths?????No. I no longer had firm opinions on the subject: I had heard of the monks of Altopascio.

with your heretic cock. but as you have seen. and we would lose our way again .?? The cry rose toward the vaulted ceiling of the church like a child??s plea. ??says that laugh?ter is to be repressed in the panegyric. But many Christians did not obey the King. dog-heads. arbor sine fouis. ??Let us say they would have been afraid. . In any case.. and where the sky.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment. both shrewd and enigmatic. What do you read?????I am not reading. We decided to go down them. false paralytics who lay at church doors. in one place??and not in another place. We re?entered the church and came out through the north door. But in your country. though supported by an abundance of theological arguments.I trembled. There is nothing that I know.