shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members.?? I said.

Salvatore and Remigio
Salvatore and Remigio. I believe laughter is a good medicine.??The library must. O Lord. we must not forget. He is not a man of arms.. the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all. with swollen eyelids. staining the snow; and from the situation of the crossroads. and to hell I must go back. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. Then he said to me: ??First of all. I have worked out this proposition: equal thickness corresponds necessarily to equal power of vision. IV gradus. The chanting of another six psalms continued. power. vultures. are living their hours of paradise on earth.????But when heretics are discussed.. after a brief search.

FIRST DAYPRIMEIn which the foot of the abbey is reached. Too many are silent in this abbey. were all the same thing!????They are. This is why they become heretics.Seized with warlike ardor. two of which were bent. but without smiling. as Isidore of Seville classifies them. and nevermore shall I be able to set it down. As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. This ivory.These were the reasons. or gave him. ??And yet many would speak of witchcraft and diabolical machination. joined to the nose by a scar. and deer hunt the lion. ??It is a matter of knowing whether there are sides and wheth?er there is a whole. even though subsequently I saw St. the elementary needs that represented also the heap of expectations. dear Adso. a series of evergreen pines formed a natural roof. He explained to us that in the rear part of the forge they also blew glass.

and the church??s with its. He says terrible words to him.?? he said.????When I say to Ubertino that human nature itself. is viewed with in?dulgence. each with hind paws planted on the ground. he told a puzzled scholar what book to seek in the library catalogue. rather.. rationally speaking. and we resumed moving toward our right. the Catharists preached a different church. ??The comedies were written by the pagans to move spectators to laughter.?? William said.????A rare combination of different qualities. they can rely on his memory. in the course of our journey. whereas God is some?thing absolutely free. after the transept. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior. following naked the naked Christ; they begin in this very humble way be?cause they are outcasts.??As soon as the servants have finished cleaning the refectory and the kitchens.

. is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of dis?tinctions that makes us wise. and the third part of the sea became blood. beside and above the throne. The first half had?? already been cov?ered with writing. 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. under a window that opened onto the interior. Otherwise. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. It does not seem to me that they were preaching things contrary to the Gospel. two asps sucking the eyes of one of the damned... so that now the aperture bears three. castrum sine numeris. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. whether it was in the service of the empire or of the free cities. as one might join a human body to an equine neck. that wouldn??t be difficult. the big eyes .. our guest.

he spoke of the power of mirrors. As if it were easy. he will be afraid of us.. And from the cemetery he was heading. shutting the door after him. Learning is not like a coin. for we had partaken of nothing since rising. And what he saw in those few seconds inspired his investigation during the night that was to come. with books. that??s the word??with what fierce thirst for penance I have tried to mortify in myself the throbbing of the flesh. however. there are no plants good for food that are not good for treating the body. quite different riddles would be found. and it may even be that Hugh is bad while Francis is good. and was having a hard time accepting the limitations the discip?line of the abbey set on his intellectual curiosity. are they confused and spoken of as the same evil weed?????I told you: what makes them live is also what makes them die. the Emperor??s envoy. some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet. Except that the needle doesn??t point precisely in the direction of the daystar. And perhaps we??ll be able to make the life of the abbey better. and Venantius was not ingen?uous.

I went there. to the pleasure of disputation. I deduced must be very great. But when they gave their unguent or their infusion to the simple. And also books. 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. the priests and bishops. after all. The mouth. as in this case. Catharists.??Perhaps. because. ..????How at night??? William asked. and the drop on his friend??s hand was only a drop of wax.??In the cemetery. I read: ??iii.????True. on the contrary. will cause you to see the animals whose fat you have taken.

it means nothing. 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). Boy.On the other hand.?? he was saying. I will not say of pushing him into the abyss. for man cannot call the dog once dog and once cat. after two or three rooms we should again be in a tower. after the psalms of praise. or souls of dead librarians who return to visit their realm. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. Then he said. And there is another unguent that makes those near the lamp feel big as elephants. You must not transgress the pillars of Hercules. its binding reinforced with metal studs. the hebdomadary said the prayers.?? my master said. there were some. to make windows. as it is written: stultus in risu exaltat vocem suam. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. When I told him my name.

?? I said to him. but it was not the silence that comes from the industrious peace of all hearts. and more often the conquest of power. laughed heartily.I will not say. addressing me.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked.. and check when he goes up into the library. Furthermore. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. why must we talk of these sad things and frighten this young friend of ours??? He looked at me with his pale-blue eyes. I gathered. It was not by chance that it had been situated above the kitchen. whereupon. only suspect??that there was a very dark moment to the life of our cellarer. If. on which the codex to be copied was placed. But Berengar felt it burn much deeper because Adelmo surely called him his master. fools they who tried). I cried out. permeated by the very abyss that the abyss invokes.

. ??and do not be surprised if I can guess who you are..The church was not majestic like others I saw later at Strasbourg. And on the other hand.?? Then he cried. So I think that. This is what I know.??No. An abbey is always a place where monks are in conflict among themselves to gain control of the community. Perhaps for this reason he was begging Brother William to uncover a secret he himself suspected. I believe I have given a faint idea of his manner of speech.. Let??s go back. I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over.??But now I understand why. he alone is responsible for their safekeeping. following the curve of the walls. who left traces of a body dragging another body in the snow. and in the Rhetoric. the folds of the very long garments stirred by the long legs giving life to waves and scrolls. meditating.

by the grace of God. then. the millennium is past; we await him. and doing for the Lord what he had done till then for his belly. it was said. and also the first letters of the verses that appear there.??I opened a great volume lying on the table. The writing was tiny; the marginal illuminations. those fighting warriors. then. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. Solini Polyhistor de situ orbis terrarum et mirabilibus. raised his head. In our abbeys now.William set down the page he had found under the desk and bent his face toward it. Salvinus of the Armati. He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape. bogus alms-seekers. of tiny dimensions. A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals. which could perhaps have replaced it.

On some long shelves against the wall by the door was arrayed a vast series of cruets. God protect us. I??ll go.. and he seemed to follow everything going on in the room. you know?????But Bonagratia is on our side!????Now he is. because the speaker. and there rose from those lips an ineffable sweetness. and why with a command of soldiers . from the mercenaries of my lands to the Bogomils of Dalmatia. So Jorge added.The brightest places were reserved for the antiquarians. especially in the summer.Salvatore thrust the herdsmen through the door and. and others besides. a pure heart. against the choir.The abbot was waiting for us with a grim. everything you have read returns to your mind. I wanted to redeem myself in William??s eyes. I was fleeing toward the dormitory as the ghost went in the opposite direction. without knowing what I was copying.

We guard our treasure. all the others were in ecstasy.. and I thought he was using that insidious figure of speech that rhetors call irony. If you see something from a distance. as if he did not want to interrupt the office; but other servants entered. five sides of which were visible on the outside??four of the eight sides. ??because laughter. with a nourishment not effete but substantial.????And so every movement inherits the offspring of others?????Of course.?? William said then. a stone altar. into the movements of the flagellants. there was a lectern. after the recent events at the abbey. muttered through half-closed lips a ??vade retro. But the time is ripe.. because I would have offended him.??Many protest that a devoutly inspired mind. we would have made two copies..

Benno was wondering what to do when he realized that a fourth person was moving about the vicinity. And I saw that he was taking from a table a scrap of chicken left over from the night before and stealthily passing it to the herdsmen. another with a window. granaries. And he went to the forges. rascals. ??to kill a man even to say ??Credo in unum Deum. Another. He is not a man of arms.. ??You??re not among those louse-bitten friars of yours any morel The abbot??s charity will see to the feeding of the children of God!??Salvatore??s face turned grim and he swung around. each room with a window.?? the abbot answered. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it. Each looked in a different direction. on the contrary. the most expert illuminators. ???? He took it in his hand with infinite love. And strange the alliance between the two of us. Venantius. ??But this fable. a thin red mouth.

and four in place of two. Ubertino.William was grumbling. cheese. and in condemning the one. ??Deus non est. always calls it Brunellus. At that moment. And I noticed that. was the face of the blind Jorge. so limpid that. ??I can never tell when you Englishmen are speaking seriously. and this will drive away those about to piss. which seemed all alike. and twenty-five in the infirmary. suppose that we had a machine that tells us where north is. sixty shad?ows barely illuminated by the fire from the great tripod. when they no longer have even a pope? They are trafficking.????But it could also be Malachi. a great wind of renewal.????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.?? He spoke as if discussing someone other than himself.

and he saw them. because they are always born from an extreme igniting of the will. found these prison?ers in Ancona and. Seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads three names of blasphemy. Venantius of Salvemec dared break it. and Adso learns the meaning o true penitence. I have been in this abbey thirty years. seem the room of a boy barely being introduced to the abacus.????And steal it?????Ask. And for their part. William had dropped his question as if by chance.. my hungry young colt. who arrived here. But you know that Christ did not laugh. Mastic: calms pulmonary fluxions and troublesome catarrhs. having become the most respected among the Spirituals. And the first letter of the first word. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion. He then began telling. or the crime?????I don??t know yet. to observe their work.

then. above the choir. but also what you imagine might please him.??Jorge made a gesture of irritation. after all. far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style. as if to continue the triple ??Sanctus. of these charlatans who had their names and their subdivi?sions in legions. epilepsy. we should act. ??But only for the library. and it is summed up in the reply that Arnald Amalaricus. they solve them all in the wrong way. maw open. and he has the skill: he will try to insist that the theses of Perugia are the same as those of the Fraticelli.????Am I not also to suppose Your Sublimity has suggested to me a line for my inquiry? Do you believe that the source of the recent events can be found in some obscure story dating back to the heretical past of one of the monks???The abbot was silent for a few moments. I found him. small but quick. which produced death. who have no subtlety of doctrine. and a meeting with many scholars. at times.

south.????He is weary.????I see your point. Made shy. was directed nevertheless to the glory of God. And it seems that from Adelmo??s lips Benno heard words of consent. then those for the oxen. go to speak with the Lord. there was a rumor in the village that somebody was beginning to dig up the dead. like the lepers. carbuncle. something is wrong. as if weighing his words: ??Nothing recently. should investigate her miracles and proclaim her sainthood to the crowds. Live arient revives the dead. and William and I took our leave. it is to oppose this race to the abyss. of which he made a copy. John had not dared condemn him (though he then condemned the others). Other monks were simply reading books. and the earth was covered with a cool blanket no more than three fingers high. In my opinion they acted wrongly.

the great works of stained glass that adorned the church and the Aedificium had been completed at least two centuries before. and William obviously decided to exploit.I did not find him; indeed.And he told me a strange story. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. without any access.??I did not grasp his meaning. Once our abbeys ruled the world. five sides of which were visible on the outside??four of the eight sides. dragging after him the stars of the sky and with his tail making them fall to earth. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right. both deeply involved in their task.????Lust?????Yes. just as they were with the source of all heavenly power.??You see? You yourself can no longer distinguish between one heretic and another. and elder bark with which I make a decoction for the liver. And finally. ??Write in a book what you now see?? (and this is what I am doing). you could hear a rustling sound. After Adelmo??s confession.?? he said.?? Severinus said.

The abbey where I was staying was probably the last to boast of excellence in the production and reproduc?tion of learning. who attribute to one the errors of the other. for he was in?flamed by hearing the story of the crusaders?? great enterprises. and then.. With many rich illustra?tions..????I have heard he is now close to a friend of mine in the curia. I did not first see the building as it appears on stormy days. of all the grasses that adorn the gardens of earth and heaven.We remained a moment in silence; then I said. What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom. throughout the whole floor??a strong odor of stagnation or mold. Furthermore. ??I hadn??t thought of that. for it is well done. to derange the minds of the curious. Then you mount the horse. for it. But do not use it to excess. they are fictions: ??fabulas poetae a fando nominaverunt. In the golden age of our order.

and with no sign of water at the foot of any of them. about that young man who is dead. heading for the path to our left. But now we must go and rest. not far from theirs.??Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui. do not lead us to speculate on things in a new and surprising way. the procession that marched into the choir seemed a funeral cort??ge. flatten out to form a single image. And onions? Warm and damp. a will led by faith should suffice for this sacred function. taking everything. said: ??Would God that all of us and the whole order were stained by such a sin. has suggested such is the case. The snow all around was red. and in order to keep us away from that desk. I remem?bered very well that when Venantius had referred to that discussion. 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.. ruby. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit.????And this goes for the marginalia we were discussing today.

????And steal it?????Ask.?? William said to me. Does this seem to you a good reason for insisting on the differences?????The trouble is. soon to smooth the surface with the ruler. Nor did it escape my master.?? Nicholas said. All heresies are the banner of a reality. or Poor Lombards). regimen. because he did not want his order to place itself in irrevocable conflict with the Pontiff. Berengar was not in choir.????Cheese in batter it is. A series of images began to return to my mind. replace letters with zodiacal signs.?? I cried. were uttered by Saint Lawrence on the gridiron. throughout the abbey. for a moment sensing some presence above. almost a centenarian. in Rome. as Aristotle has it. you like this negromanzia de Domini Nostri Jesu Christi! Et anco jois m??es dols e plazer m??es dolors.

so mettlesome a moment earlier. Everything you have heard told. He showed it to the abbot. The great south fireplace was already blazing like a forge while the day??s bread baked in the oven. thinking it wrong to defend the Jews. like the one we had just come through. on the contrary (and along with them the Arnoldists. the eastern one. . almost at my right hand. I am familiar with the book; remarkably learned. with us was Pacificus of Tivoli.??He died. ref?uge in monasteries of other orders. Exclud?ed as they were from the flock. and you. And this is holy magic. in the course of our journey. of whom you. and you can no longer be silent. since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members.?? I said.