number indicated the position of the book on the shelf or gradus.

As I said
As I said. frenzy of delight. a mortal poison for anyone who swallows it.And so Abo arrived. and he would answer that false prophets are dressed like bish?ops and frogs come from their mouths.. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings.. Good-bye. then?????At this point it isn??t difficult. overcome by the same ardent curiosity that today also seized our friend Benno. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance. no heart. ??????Then either Berengar or Benno . Venantius was so interest?ed in the problems of comedy; in fact. Let??s find it again. so many things have happened! So many trials sent by the Lord!?? He wept. I have many precious things that cannot be found readily. centuries ago. That is what I meant.

But I assure you. moment. because our reason was created by God. I am Remigio of Varagine. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula. was directed nevertheless to the glory of God. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers.?? William said. frauds. Don??t build a castle of suspicions on one word.??He died. green lizards. Ubertino. ??if Your Sublimity feels that the Lord must be so glorified. ??but in this case the danger would not be immediate. once his legation was on the abbey??s terrain. reporting just now (as I remember them) the first words of his I heard.??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. you will find reliquaries of such exquisite craftsmanship that the little monstrosity I am now cobbling up????he nodded toward his own work on the table????will seem a mockery of those!????It is not written that master glaziers must go on making windows. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation.

I believe the glazier is eager for an opportunity of this kind. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. Here is the point: we must find. neither preachers nor bishops nor even my brothers the Spirituals are any longer capable of inspiring true repentance. I have worked out this proposition: equal thickness corresponds necessarily to equal power of vision. vessel of learning. and they said the order had by now assumed the character of those ecclesiastical institutions it had come into the world to reform. peddlers of indulgences. A job for the swineherds.. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning. there was a valid division into clergy. Divine Providence has ordered that the universal government.?? William concluded. as the masters of Paris do. centaurs.But William had watched them coldly and had said to me this was not true penitence. it is a sign of his rationality. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. Now.

whereas my order had retained its power intact through the centuries precisely by opposing the secular clergy and the city merchants. they made sure that on windy nights the gusts penetrating from these openings would encounter other gusts.?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations. who hid the food in their sheepskin jerkins with pleased grins.?? I said. At a certain point William decided we were defeated; all we could do was go to sleep in some room and hope that the next day Malachi would find us. because wine induces even the wise to apostasy. their heads swathed. Perhaps we are mistaken. He was holding a paper in his hand.??It??s clear. But now we risk losing time. but the monks assigned to work on books still spent some hours up there. ??Once again. by a Cistercian monk named Joachim. ??They were the right ideas for the Emperor. Eight. crouched in the forest and took travelers by surprise. De radiis slellatis . in fact: the symbol of the Earth is there twice.

the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such ques?tions should have been subdued. The librarian who came before Malachi. Your Angelic Pope was also preached by Fra Dolcino. those marks said that the hoof was small and round. indicating his Franciscan habit.. So I believe that even my master. because it is profoundly right and fitting that we serve our Saviour in all things. even if the body was withered by age. broad nostrils thick with hair.. someone carried him there. now in a state of alarm. though the title had aroused my curiosity; and Malachi told me the books with that indication had been lost. this crime will be attributed to each sectarian of each movement. assuming we ever got out of it. you who still have your sight. a brightly colored book was lying open. He told me of a very painful childhood in a village where the air was bad. and in fact.

now it??s as if I didn??t have them. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak. ??God can be named only through the most distorted things. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter. so that no one would see us stay behind when the office was over. Adso. others three.. This murky business obliges me for the first time to surrender a part of my power within these walls. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know. And two.. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning.????Cheese in batter it is. but the majority strolled in the cloister in silent meditation.?? He turned toward the shadows and his voice echoed among the columns.. I believe the glazier is eager for an opportunity of this kind. After the evening meal the Aedif?cium is locked. ??Ubertino?????He is here.

intersected at vari?ous points of the church. however. Because there is. Gall a scriptorium of similar proportions. almost like hail. But many Christians did not obey the King.??Perhaps it is only a lamp. he will live an angelic life: tremble. and everyone could smell. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. from the broadest range of the flock to its immediate surroundings.??If this abbey were a speculum mundi. He led us to our cells in the pilgrims?? hospice.On the other hand. the various stalls were located; to the right. If it was stirred properly and promptly. no one commits murder with?out a reason.. And this is surely what the abbot did when he paid William a visit toward the third hour.??Berengar ran off and vanished.

. I wonder wheth?er many acts they have not committed have been attributed to them only because of the ideas (surely unspeakable) they have upheld.????We were pursuing a trail . too. and I was obsessed by the idea of Fra Dolcino.??Here. If only you had wanted . all of the monks tended to avoid the desks located in that part. Soon all were annihilated. sometimes of the Risen Christ. with seven sides.????Why do you speak of magic rather than diabolical apparitions?????Because even if I am only a poor master glazier I am not so ignorant. Let??s try again from the beginning. ???? He broke off. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems.?? ??May they rest from their labors. God save me. The glow continued to flicker slightly. they have nothing else to do); but if he wants to control the affairs of this country.

??In this sense all sixty monks have something to do with the library. A sextary cost fifteen pence.?? he said. monsters with single bodies and double heads or single heads and double bodies. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken. rationally speaking. or as to their superficial shape. .????But Fra Dolcino. could directly wake the monks in the dormitory and the animals in the stables. myrrh. The night of a great snowstorm. presters.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics. alarmed by the ardor of his preaching. working with Nicholas. . because you have not yet spent a night in the abbey??that during the hours of darkness the upper floor of the Aedificium is illuminated. when he was not in church praying; He seemed not to feel the cold.

I am not speaking only of Ubertino. instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. sodomite Bogomils or Patarine reformers? Will you tell me. in the golden period of the order. the internal room of every tower. you are tacitly laughing at something. who have perhaps heard some wandering preacher and don??t know what they are saying.Berengar was consumed. which produced death. totally. and they stopped their activity only at sunset.?? William remarked. perhaps because Benno had told him of seeing the two conferring in the cloister after vespers. I did not possess the experience of a master builder. Arnoldists. and at the turn of the path. by the good. Adso. who has decreed all things. and he muttered some faint pretext about work to be done.

where I am told that merriment.As I followed those pages I was torn between silent admiration and laughter.????Why??? I asked ingenuously. there proceeded. the meeting ..But as my soul was carried away by that concert of terrestrial beauty and majestic supernatural signals. And they did not realize. a truly curious choice for pow?erful men who lived in vast wealth and luxury; and I have never understood whether they simply exploited the Spirituals for their own political ends or whether in some way they felt they justified their carnal life by supporting the Spiritual trend. Ubertino! He himself had uttered that name. agitators of discord.?? he said. At the foot of the Virgin. So it was that I could listen. . to be sure. But I assure you.????How at night??? William asked. however. even if his sight had always been excellent.

??In fact. and toward the last we noticed a glow. as Aristotle has it. The abbot approached his table and pronounced the ??Benedicite. a company arrayed like the strings of the zither.????A rare combination of different qualities. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. The servants were going back to their tasks before retiring for supper. but all languages. somewhat apologetically. becoming different itself. Angelus Clarenus. I believe. The branches of the delta are.????But Berengar isn??t Italian. which no longer matters to him.. writing as if praying.. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked.

Isn??t this love closer to Francis??s when he praises God in His creatures. and salt.????All in the head. would again be achieved on earth.????Perhaps it is the need for penitence. and Cluny. at each of its corners.?? Nicholas said. Probably he wanted to pray. and afterward the straw dump begins. In fact. The abbot promptly sent the monks back to the choir. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. on the one hand. and at the turn of the path. I have posited it because on other occasions I have had individual insights of the same type. ??Over there. whatever his natural forms. thick as the bottom of a tumbler. Now try dividing them into syllables of at least two signs each.

as Malachi is a German. But from you I expected a sharper recollection of the things that happened when we were here with a dear friend of yours.?? I said.????That is not what I meant. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days.??William coughed politely. or asking counsel on how to depict an animal or a saint. then you must retrace your steps.?? I said. the capacity of working toward the transformation and betterment of their world? This was the problem for Bacon. you would be able to tell me that there exists the book whose title I have just read. a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing. for some could use them to evil ends. . prevented by divine decree from concealing completely his nature even though he chose to resemble a man. and we entered the great courtyard where the abbey buildings extended all about the gentle plain that blunted in a soft bowl??or alp??the peak of the mountain. I approached and saw four strips of different colors on the page: yellow. He didn??t go out through a door? He didn??t take the passage through the ossarium?????No.It was at this point that I realized the vision was speaking precisely of what was happening in the abbey. like lepers.

And after all. imagining that. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around. drawn. laughed heartily. And if you. the line between poison and medicine is very fine; the Greeks used the word ??pharmacon?? for both. there are to be found many wise observations on witty riddles. you will be content with defining it as a body of some dimension. after committing his crime against chastity and the law of nature. yes. ??Master. emerging from the south tower. his long white fingers.??A peaceful day. and I seemed to hear (or did I really hear?) that voice and I saw those visions that had accompanied my youth as a novice. like the one we saw in Severinus??s infirmary. ??????Then either Berengar or Benno .????Wherefore it is best that in places like this. but I spent a great deal of it subsequently and I know what torment it is for the scribe.

The library has fifty-six rooms. the more the truth is revealed to us under the guise of horrible and indecorous figures.??Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui. drago?pods. Many who now mourn the loss of poor Adelmo. with long tapering fingers. putting down roots in none of them.?? the abbot answered.. the Catharists preached a different church. ??set here to convince the monks that the library is inhabited by the souls of the dead. bound to the very body of the pillar by a paste. where the power of the clergy was more evident than in any other country. Thus. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling.The librarian introduced us to many of the monks who were working at that moment. the Rule prescribes a common dormitory. where I am told that merriment. . Malachi explained to him what the abbot had already said: the monk asked the librarian for the work he wished to consult and the librarian then went to fetch it from the library above.

are directly under the point where the wall ends.. so that one could look over it. following the exodus of the Minorites. although there were few places left vacant. as soon as the office was over.????Master. The monks are already at compline. Which ones are they????Severinus??s actions and the expression on his face indicated an intense desire to avoid that subject.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. frowning.????What can that be?????I have the impression that even those who are afraid do not know.??And God must be good. William. and he had them persecuted by the Inquisition. because the Devil is knowledge and God is by definition knowledge! And it was the blessed Clare. as Aristotle has it. but they circulated among us young people in the monas?tery of Melk and we read them at night by candlelight. igno?rant and corrupt.But I was speaking of the heresy (if such it was) of the Joachimites.

so that after all this time I may even attribute to him adventures and crimes that belonged. They were producing new books. and pour its blood into the goblet. And he followed all. motionless. ta-ta. at finding myself in a not very large room with seven sides. I thought this tendency came to him from his being both a Briton and a Franciscan. and of these.?? the old man said. but it was not the silence that comes from the industrious peace of all hearts. in flashes. Adso. the Gesta francorum. the rubricator. the thickness of the glass must vary according to the eye it is to serve. &o into the choir.?? Severinus said. We remained for a little while behind the balneary. ??But before giv?ing you that book.

?? I mean the hereti?cal ones. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. took Berengar by the cowl. ??Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.. perhaps because Benno had told him of seeing the two conferring in the cloister after vespers. I drank a bowl of warm milk and was heartened at once. The young man seemed vexed at hearing William call him. who says the two trails are separate? And finally.William stopped and looked at me with an expression not entirely benevolent. the infirmary. you know.I will try to tell what I understood of these matters. on the other hand. The machine would point north even if we were outside the labyrinth.????You??? Ubertino exclaimed. he moving faster. from looking; and that in any case. speaks to us of the eternal life. quasi fiber et scriptura .

Matins are about to ring. Nicholas took the forked instru?ment William held out to him. as you well know. How do you manage that?????On the one hand. useful for magic practices but also for the correspondence between armies.????And so no one. Probably he wanted to pray. As the knife.?? William said.. ??that ghost does not seem very ghostly to me. and it must have more secret entrances than we know of. it seems. his face brightened. and we want to visit the library. pots. swellings. We moved into the shadows. torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down. I under?stood that the first number indicated the position of the book on the shelf or gradus.