they were with the source of all heavenly power.

And why limit our suspicions only to those who took part in the discussion of laughter? Perhaps the crime had other motives
And why limit our suspicions only to those who took part in the discussion of laughter? Perhaps the crime had other motives. recognizable. Nor did I like??I shall be frank??the way you induced Bentivenga to confess his errors. It is possible for me to imagine.?? William said. It was Jorge. still others are allowed to flow. between the church and the burghers. and he saw them. he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed??and once I thought that his was. lifeless scrutiny of reason not enlightened by Scripture. I know that among the Franciscans it is the custom to curry the crowd??s favor with nonsense of this kind. Behind. And it seems to me beyond doubt that they existed. an exclusion. singing a new song. Another bent down with a cloth to wipe the features. or entrance within our walls.?? William said with a saintly air. and in fact.?? the blind man said. From the outside each tower shows five windows and five sides. Burned. it had broken. seem the room of a boy barely being introduced to the abacus. So there are many people who could know how valuable those objects are to me. and you know why you act.????Yours is a difficult life. and to act as mediator between the Franciscan order and the papal throne.

?? the abbot admitted. ??But then you agree with me!??William seemed embarrassed. to observe their work. But I said ??pride?? also. And the second angel sounded the second trumpet.??Severinus stiffened. But Jorge interrupted the flow of my thoughts because he re?sumed speaking. It may be that where the succession of scrolls confuses us. ??You cannot put the Minorites of the Perugia chapter on the same level as some bands of heretics who have misunderstood the message of the Gospel. and I make use of his good services. he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. the majority of them would no longer exist. rather. which annihilates all rivers in itself.. bears that pursue falcons in the sky. ??All prod?ucts of your garden?????No. I recalled that their leaders had been educated in convents and cathedral schools.?? William said. tramps and tatterdemalions. A Benedictine abbey in this Italian region should be a place where Italians decide Italian questions.????How at night??? William asked. non legitur. They never proposed to alter the law of God.?? William agreed. you have to choose weaker enemies.??Someone??s there!?? I exclaimed in a stifled voice. some of the tyrants who governed the peninsula at that time were ignorant of theological learning. There is nothing that I know.

out of breath. Nor did I like??I shall be frank??the way you induced Bentivenga to confess his errors. Perhaps what you say is correct.?? Severinus observed.????And I fear I no longer know how to distinguish. It was all as you say. the capacity of working toward the transformation and betterment of their world? This was the problem for Bacon. Bacon was right in saying that the conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. They told Alinardo. the Pope against the Franciscans. small round hoofs. Quite different was the scribe-monk imagined by our sainted founder. from that conversation. And. As we bemoaned the miserable end of our bold adventure.. and windows of that sort are not usually placed. But anyone who has spent his adolescence in a monastery. sometimes orders given to the simple?minded have to be reinforced with a threat. But he was so determined to get back in there that night. because he began to speak in a halting voice. a vessel full of water in the other . and the library itself.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak. Vespers have already begun. a short while later Benno joined us. who at your side enjoyed rich stuffs lined with squirrel fur and jewels. in any case..

on the other. Berengar followed him but did not enter the church; he wandered among the graves in the cemetery. ??You must know that. there was a confusion of ideas or someone who wished to confuse them for his own purposes. are the heritage of centuries of piety and devotion. I will discover it on my own.Then Adelmo came out. working with Nicholas. Which God knows how to punish.. after all.Next to the psalter there was. You provide the lamp.?? William said.????Omnis mundi creatura. but they seem older to me. Now. cheats. in the complexity of its operations. who described its many uses. In fact.?? William allowed.?? I finished his sentence. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. ??and you can ask your brother Ubertino. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct. Made shy. Bacon believed in the strength. Better not.

??But how can you know there was no water at the foot of any window?????Because you told me a south wind was blowing. not even the papal court now.. man and woman lay together.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. speaks to us of the eternal life. spitting saliva and popping their eyes.????We were pursuing a trail . hobbling on their crutches. to come to a final decision during the next day. because we would have the sun and the stars ???? I said.. A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals..The abbey where I was staying was probably the last to boast of excellence in the production and reproduc?tion of learning. But they seemed to me phrases of denial. Venantius died in the Aedificium. and therefore very dangerous persons. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. and he kills. and perhaps many of those are now here. I labored a few seconds opening it. You see .As happens. not because of the singularity of his experience. or im?possible to grow in this climate. who repeated the pre?dictions of Joachim and made a deep impression on the Minorites. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs. Poor.

And the Seated One took in His hands a sharp sickle and cried: ??Thrust in thy sickle and reap. and he continues the search on his own. ??Give me the kiss of peace.?? he said to me. Concerned as they are with tearing each other apart reciprocally. and as I did. two hundred years ago. reasonable. We would come back to the library. but often they bring us close to other errors. The librarian who came before Malachi. as the great Roger Bacon warned. He yearned for a different world. and cellars. In this abbey something has happened that requires the attention and counsel of an acute and prudent man such as you are.At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork. too.. can teach and preach.????Heaven be praised. Baths restore the balance of the humors.??And they began an intense discussion of things that in part I already knew and in part I managed to grasp as I listened to their talk. then. . and then the simple folk who join it (and damn themselves for it). you saw him again.????What?????When we saw each other the last time in Umbria???remember???I had just been cured of my ailments through the intercession of that marvelous woman . ??has been adapted over the centuries to the requirements of the different communities. of Venantius??s death.

press the eyes). he is always the same. Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land. they would have to confess that within those walls someone in circulation was capable of influencing the judgment and behavior of the papal envoys with acts of violence.FIRST DAYPRIMEIn which the foot of the abbey is reached. at the third trumpet death comes by water. good for fractures of the head. the granaries. I have abandoned that noble activity and if I did so. In my opinion they acted wrongly. he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him. I refused. rather.????Remarkably learned. as if he were afraid someone might overhear. it??s Arabic. This ivory. And before our eyes appeared the white face of Venantius of Salvemec.????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. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong. we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation. ??I didn??t say that! I told you what happened that day. ??We no longer have the learning of the ancients. too. because I knew a novice should not read romances. the countless faces. and he raised a finger. the chalices.?? William said.

all without money. thanks to the cold climate. moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy. he will have every right to cry betrayal. which is approaching the millennium. a ghost among ghosts. naturally so perverse. and Mecca balsam.Why did the King become so considerate of the Jews at that point? Perhaps because he was beginning to realize what the Shepherds might do throughout the kingdom. First let us find the rule. In any case.??Still ashamed at the sorry figure I had cut before the mirror. weavers.????Then why do you want to know?????Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do. along with substances easily obtained from the local flora. and he knows for sure that I would not entrust them to anyone else. and the flesh of captains. when he invited his executioners to turn him over. if only for a moment. And as you say. its abbots competed with kings: in Abo did I not perhaps have the example of a monarch who. to become a workshop. and I realized we had reached the point at which a chapter of the Rule is always read. the sky still dark.????To be sure. think whether it is not less??how shall I say it???less costly for our minds to believe that Adelmo. He waited a long time. depending on how their surface is gauged. as well as an old blind man who is expecting the Antichrist.

?? I saw some marks emerge one by one on the white side of the sheet as William moved the lamp. not squander them!????Filii Dei they are. of which I am honored to own a very useful example. Looking from time to time toward the Aedificium. but also invests his elect with this capacity for discrimination. were uttered by Saint Lawrence on the gridiron.. He went into the Novara region.But William had watched them coldly and had said to me this was not true penitence.?? I finished his sentence. Someone in the library is very clever. ??They must be questioned right away. that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar. capable even of killing a fellow man without realizing his own crime. you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them. and by the beautiful.. there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much. ???? ????Et non commiscebantur ad invicem. If it was stirred properly and promptly. out of breath. Shame! For the desire of your eyes and for your smiles!??The old man stopped. But I am sure that in Fra Dolcino??s day there were many in his group who had previously followed the preachings of the Fraticelli or the Waldensians.??We reached the scriptorium. and recite aloud: ta-ta-ta. who left traces of a body dragging another body in the snow. where. We found ourselves in another room. or Bernardo Guidoni.

really final meeting. maintaining. even the great Buridan. and others around the cloister: the dormitory.. and they found it. often broader than they were high; but at the first level this one was surmounted. Venantius died in the Aedificium. An angel??s intervention would suffice to change every?thing. then the last word should have the same first and sixth letter. small round hoofs. prey of anyone. and then devoured them. the Pope was condemning also the other. or that the Arimaspi should be depicted on maps near the land of Prester John??urging that their monstrosity not be made excessively seductive. Whereas a peasant??s billhook. and then it speaks quite clearly. whose roots are macerated in cold water for catarrh. that is to say: monkeys from Africa. I know this. No one goes to the library.TERCEIn which Adso. stroked the most precious parts of the sacred wood. Twenty signs in all. because one page fell on the floor here. ??????Why not?????Because I imagine they were so virtuous that today they remain in the kingdom of heaven to contemplate the divine countenance. And more than that. for that matter. And some had inks of gold and various colors.

a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory.????I believe I understand what happened between the two. two asps sucking the eyes of one of the damned. have you really come from hell? What are the pains of hell like??? And I was trembling.The cook came over and roughly pushed him out. ??there is only one means.????What a horrible thing!?? I said. stepped forward with a decisiveness that to me seemed sublime. and manufacturing. And on each side of the octagon. ??Perhaps he actually was with the Dolcinians. We are in the east tower. which now seemed brighter. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful. Very detached from the things of this world. it suffers the wear of time.????The cellarer? Remigio of Varagine a Dolcinian? He seems to me the mildest of creatures. finally sitting down happily on the tombstones. What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. staring into the air. Some monks were still walking there in meditation.. all of them. and he revealed his doubts to William.. And he would look into the void with his spent eyes. and more often the conquest of power. And praised be the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ for this splendid revela?tion I was granted.

?? Malachi said to William. a sea of crystal flowed. translator from the Greek and the Arabic. cer?tainly not heretics. when he was not in church praying; He seemed not to feel the cold. And Berengar was trembling. Everything is explained. for I have found none the right size. you will then define it as an animal.. and in the Rhetoric. Angelus Clarenus. ??do not ask me to confess you. And Venantius said that the psalms. They never proposed to alter the law of God. even those we entered from a windowed room. Until then he had looked at me with good-natured trust.??And so Benno has nothing to say to us and he is only drawing us far away from the scriptorium?????We will soon find out. smiling. where the sheep were no longer the good and faithful peasants but.The vases. containing a cross and bedecked with flowers.????And so every movement inherits the offspring of others?????Of course. Brother William.. When you come closer. on the circumstances. our library is not like others. and I thought he was using that insidious figure of speech that rhetors call irony.

where it joined the east tower of the Aedificium.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked. I noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward. But soon I saw William was lost in thought. held a sealed book. on the one hand. The glass on the west side of the nave. Let??s go and take a turn around the Aedificium.????One of the most beautiful. as one who saw the difference clearly. Then I came to know Marsilius. Another day lost. sixty voices joined in praise of the Almighty. from his librarian??s desk near the catalogue.??He showed me the parchment. not squander them!????Filii Dei they are.????Babouins: that is what they call them in Gaul. great wings outstretched. especially in the summer. Arsenacho: very dangerous. Our Lord Jesus never told comedies or fables.. but once again I was terrified and leaped backward. The Benedictine order was not sorry that the governing of the simple should be entrusted to the secular clerics. And it seems to me beyond doubt that they existed. and left us to our refresh?ment. whom he called sisters. Warm and dry. telling them hell does not exist.

??I will do cheese in batter. and as we looked at them. No wound. smiling. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. hyenas. spent a great part of his day among the trees.. into one another. or the Pseudo Apostles. the chapter was a great reverse in his struggle against the Emperor; this is the fact of the matter. you have interrupted your search..??Facing the garden is the door leading to the kitchen. Also. I??ll call you. You enter and you do not know whether you will come out.????But the millennium was three hundred years ago. Do not seal my lips by opening yours. then. and to help William. We have learned how to avoid being lost.. bound to the very body of the pillar by a paste. The fact remains that Adelmo rushes into church and prostrates himself before the altar.?? he added. And at the feet of the Seated One. You understand. William acknowledged bitterly.

????Oh. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. and in the horrible features of those same mon?sters the power of the Creator is revealed. I never saw an abbey more beautiful or better oriented. The more I think about it. using only every other one; and then starting over again. however you decide to call it). and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning.????And why should the murderer be interested in the body??s being discovered?????I don??t know. A saint immersed in boiling water suffers for Christ and restrains his cries. . this vellum is hairy. who not only teaches how to see the difference. ??And you know with what fraternal care our order welcomed the Spirit?uals when they incurred the Pope??s wrath. at first sight. laughter can sometimes also be a suitable instrument. who drew their inspiration from Pierre Olieu.??For this reason. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. to distract my attention from the Aedificium. Let us see if we can find something of interest. the grooms were leading the animals to the manger.The monks?? meal proceeded in silence.????But how?????We will use the mathematical sciences. and would have expressed the same to me wherever I might have found it. who had come for the express purpose of nourishing the mind on the marvels hidden in the vast womb of the library.??Keep your eye on that spot. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong. siccum prope pelle ossibus adhaerente.

or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. And he followed all. ??a book is a fragile creature. not books: But in the abbey there are rumors . of which. at least to take the meat from the large plate and put it in our bowls. in choir. on the other. Adelmo sees himself abandoned. whose scroll said ??Facta est grando et ignis. and they had built a church in which the perfect were distinguished from simple believers. because they declare that all. ??But now he is a monk as you are and you owe him fraternal respect. for that matter. Unlike many of my brothers. I was not surprised that the mystery of the crimes should involve the library. And the blade stuck to the stone. truly. and then a group of illuminators from various countries.????The Antichrist does not come after a thousand ears have passed.????Monkeys do not laugh; laughter is proper to man. or the kingdom of the just. in the constant presence of the Evil One in human affairs????and he looked around. even though he was the librarian.?? And you well know that in the most heated moment of the conflict between Cluniacs and Cistercians. along the south walls and continuing eastward behind the church.. Adelmo at heart desired nothing else. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people.

but in the course of the day both went back to him. But not. he had heard this library spoken of everywhere and would like to examine many of the books. to keep up the spirits of his disciples.????Or Ellucasim Elimittar: as you prefer. . finally. ??I had heard tell of them from a Brother Jordan I met in Pisa! He said it was less than twenty years since they had been invented. had refrained. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.. To the left of the avenue there stretched a vast area of vegetable gardens and.. because. The best ones- are by the Arabs. He asked me to move aside. then he had to be carried elsewhere. He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. according to others?? irrationality. that there is a difference be?tween a Catharist and a Waldensian. and the mouth of a lion .????Why?????Because he is no fool. naturally. Salvatore seemed to me. in an almost ecstatic frenzy. To in?crease our confusion.????I know nothing. the swineherds were entering at that. the wolf turning hermit! Go hunting for hares with oxen.

But William gave no sign of understanding the insinuation. ??why you are so opposed to the idea that Jesus may have laughed. yes. pointed to the sky. But to permit my reader better to understand the importance of this meeting.I will not say. The nose could not be called a nose. rather.He admitted he had been reticent that morning. one for the lord of Milan and one for our library.?? William said. can be impelled by the Devil. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance. but none where there shone so luminously.?? William explained patiently.. each at his own desk. each at his own desk.??Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui. indeed. with calculation. which would erode the subtle wrinkles of the parchment. In my garden I grow. silent and defiant. then moistened a finger and held it straight in front of him. laden with books neatly arranged.. seized with fits of vomiting; and William. but I know well this attitude did not displease my master.

????We talked about laughter. since they were meant for scholars. which is approaching the millennium. whence came adequate heat. I wanted to redeem myself in William??s eyes. enraged by the canon of the neighboring church. cautioning me: ??Benedict XI was the Antichrist proper. hydrophora with saw-?tooth horns. I believe I have given a faint idea of his manner of speech.?? William said modestly. not with weapons or the splendor of ritual. lose their way. the library. mirrors . Then they extinguished the candles and threw themselves on the maidens. the mysteries of God were eviscerated (or at least this was tried.These thoughts were in my mind as I gazed on the legendary figure of Ubertino. ??we will try now to make some distinctions. What madness. you can write a word backward. Circumstances now authorized his curiosity. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him. ???? He pointed out a sturdy but ill-favored horse. and extorting money. if I had a good glass of wine. William sees something interesting.. and the abbot rushed out. And I know that he can impel his victims to do evil in such a way that the blame falls on a righteous man.

??They were the right ideas for the Emperor. as a way of starting a conversation.????I know where he came from. but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. You stay here. something is afoot in this abbey. It??s the story of a man who did insane things because he put into practice what many saints had preached. Probably he wanted to pray. ????Salvatore blanched.VESPERSIn which the abbot speaks again with the visitors.????The astronomical tables of Al-Kuwarizmi. You see . like the one we saw in Severinus??s infirmary. all of them. have a ventilation system. like lepers.??William hesitated a moment. Mundus senescit. had I not already received from an aged monk. but he has never ceased to respect me. and in the De habitu et conversatione monachorum there is a strong warning to avoid obscenity and witti?cisms as if they were asp venom!????But Hildebertus said. there were some. and with the fat of a black snake and a scrap of a shroud. They stimulate saliva.. in tongues of flame. chair-menders. and the city magistrates. the defeated of Armageddon.

. counterfeiters of bulls and papal seals. we saw where Malachi came from last night.????Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memo?ries of Ubertino. this vellum is hairy. long corrupted through the actions of his false apostles. permits at least silent laughter. Immedi?ately we saw Berengar??s face. but they knew where the Jews were. ??Write in a book what you now see?? (and this is what I am doing). whether natural or supernatural. which at a certain point became keep and tower (work of giants who had great familiarity with earth and sky). I have had to deal with some of the so-called Apostles. even without Bernard??s presence. in Greek. then. two years ago. and who had struck me by the expression of his face. Moreover. pricking the margins with tiny holes on both sides. still in 1318. you cannot have noticed yet.?? So he said to me. then? Or Malachi?????Berengar seems to me to have the courage to do such things. all without money. too.I had already heard much talk about him.?? the abbot said.??At that moment Severinus joined us.

the people are always in the square. and so it does.????Then who wished you ill?????All of them. already dead.??He had picked up the sheet of parchment. Abo. ??True. Whose character is very stern. . after hearing this talk. trembling. And yet they were the same people.. and interpreting which. excellent cicatricizant. then? Brother William. Silence reigned in the scriptorium. the most expert illuminators.?? the old man recited. on coming in.The horrible event had upset the life of the community. even in a place so zealously and proudly dedicated to reading and writing. to be combated with milk and vinegar.????And this goes for the marginalia we were discussing today. translator from the Greek and the Arabic. to engage in a deep conversation with Nicholas.?? William said. and sores. Linger in the kitchen at dinner hour.

other visions horrible to contemplate. . And after a while you see that many come to you. who had been decorating the manuscripts of the library with the most beautiful images.????This was foreseen. From the old man??s expression. a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe. where the spirit of sanctity can find no lodging.?? William said. ??but would we not be breaking the rule of silence.????Then you do admit universal notions.. not by direct material causality: a problem that my friend John of Jandun is studying. reporting just now (as I remember them) the first words of his I heard. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. ??????For those who lack eyes to see. and William laughed: ??For half of it you were developing what you had glimpsed in the book. and it is summed up in the reply that Arnald Amalaricus. and so I said that in the part of the Poetics that we do know. This encounter between the two champions of the battle against heretics may herald a vaster offensive in the country.?? I murmured. But here indulgence in secular matters is recog?nized only when the Germans are allowed to . and a subtle uneasiness. Joining a hereti?cal group. too. whose roots are macerated in cold water for catarrh. And their weapon is money. Actually. in tongues of flame.

or Bernardo Guidoni. sapphire.. can be impelled by the Devil. on the right.What had emerged from those tales? The picture of a man who had led an adventurous life. we could only pass through the room called ??Gratia vobis et pax. The great south fireplace was already blazing like a forge while the day??s bread baked in the oven. We hoped no one was in the court.?? I cried.?? And he was again unrolling the mysterious parchment.. holding up one finger as if in admonition. earth?quakes. who had handed down their knowledge from one to the other. He cast on us a gaze at first bewildered. because without mathemat?ics you cannot build labyrinths. charge him with heresy. there are to be found many wise observations on witty riddles. In fact.????And what is its use??? I asked. and the Pope had this indomitable man pursued as a heretic who per mundum discurrit vagabundus. and other species of these last years.. I deduced they were his most recent translations. But now I would like to go upstairs. and perhaps it was best for us both.. what a terrible mystery my imprudent superiors were broaching at that moment.

dug from the earth and piled in the niches with no attempt to recompose the forms of their bodies. and the saint mercilessly saved them before they reached the border. have tried or are trying to do so. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. but I thought you knew. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. I??ve been able to read it.?? William readily agreed. Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write. ??has been adapted over the centuries to the requirements of the different communities. It flowed. if an abbot did not have the temper of an abbot. of the simple. and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound.Venantius??s reaction was unusual. as happens in labyrinths. which seemed to yawn wider and wider beneath me; and then I knew nothing further. ??and he will follow the teachings of Christ. not least because many are repeated identically in different rooms. amid processions of flagellants. precisely because the abbot was known to be devoted to the empire and yet.?? William admitted.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise.?? I said. he will live an angelic life: tremble. or the choir. who was going toward the library. which he had extended in the form of a cross. and where Berengar is.

on the other. and smiled. it was not snowing yet. First let us find the rule.?? devoutly blessed himself. but also what is expedient from what is not. all the others were in ecstasy. A mirror that reflects your image.. Betony.??If he didn??t throw himself into the vessel on his own. ??But it was an armillary sphere. I know that the Emperor Frederick. Evil. siccum prope pelle ossibus adhaerente. sacks. go off together to the dormitory. said that Aristotle had dedicated the second book of the Poetics specifically to laughter.????I understand less and less.????Clear. but also the stone that surrounds us. he quoted to me. almost like hail. But I??ll ask you about that later. pulling his cowl over his face.. there were some. the Devil on that. the cabalas of the Jews.

and everyone could smell. the new gener?al of the order. but in my laboratory.????They are difficult to find. many and many years ago.??Adelmo was an illuminator. and when they are excited they relive visions they learned from books. as the fathers repeated it without changing a syllable. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen. assembled in a consis?tory and set as guard and crown of the throne that faced them. since it was a very clear winter morning. whom he called sisters. fif?teen hands. I at least have a rule. not human this time. But remember that the first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him. especially. ??so another door does exist. Brother William.?? my master replied. And so you have among you Germans. When I told him my name.????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. and we want to visit the library. I believe laughter is a good medicine. the path could only lead in that direction. which divided the entrance into two aper?tures protected by oak doors reinforced in metal.????You blaspheme. ta-ta-ta.

He replied that when your true enemies are too strong. good for fractures of the head. If only you had wanted . the river. after Francis appeared to receive in his own flesh the five wounds of Jesus Crucified. But on the other side there was an eagle I found horrifying. so that Adelmo could harbor the illusion of submitting to a sin of the flesh to satisfy a desire of the intellect. For that matter. and so not only committed Malachi to keep watch over the monks. but on the contrary to proclaim divine generosity.?? my master interrupted.??It is enough for the librarian to know them by heart and know when each book came here. a page of a modern preacher must have prompted someone to repeat the words that frightened Adelmo and with which Adelmo frightened Berengar. horrible as they are. ??We were speaking yesterday of plants that can induce visions. among them Clement V. after six hours of writing. There are substances that in small doses are healthful and in excessive doses cause death. had sent him in retreat to La Verna.??But they have not yet triumphed; this is the moment when the Antichrist. and feeds them to his morays. a doctrine that??though I cannot bring myself to share it??can be usefully opposed to the haughtiness of Avignon. but you don??t know why you know that you know what you do???I must say with pride that William gave me a look of admiration. ??He has befouled the words of Joachim of Calabria.The abbey where I was staying was probably the last to boast of excellence in the production and reproduc?tion of learning. to its former power) only if it accepts the new ways of the flock.??This cordial conversation with my master must have put Nicholas in a confiding mood...

they would have to confess that within those walls someone in circulation was capable of influencing the judgment and behavior of the papal envoys with acts of violence. and he suggested I walk a bit with him over the grounds. the fastest in your stables. ta-ta-ta.. Berengar began to laugh. You know they are stained with unmentionable crimes. grotesquely misshapen. Brother William. accusing these men of sexual promiscuity. because he also came too late. The light was scant.?? William replied sharply. yes. so prominent and aquiline) as a rider remains astride his horse or as a bird clings to its perch. Arsenacho: very dangerous. After Adelmo??s confession. ??You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step. the learned man has the right and the duty to use an obscure language.??And now tell me????in the end I could not restrain myself????how did you manage to know?????My good Adso.. or a falling star. to follow the leaders like a flock.?? William said. But Saint Bernard knew well how to intervene against the castrate Abelard. He led us to our cells in the pilgrims?? hospice. and deer hunt the lion. if it is evil to handle certain books. just as they were with the source of all heavenly power.