and rye. love. as if he were afraid someone might overhear.

Then Adelmo came out
Then Adelmo came out. The horse came this way and took the path to the right. This and only this is sanctity. ??Now many things become clear. the number of the Gospels; five.????The flock is like a series of concentric circles. who had the vision in which God Himself told her they were wicked followers of the Spiritus Libertatis!????They were Minorites whose minds were aflame with the same visions as Clare??s. You provide the lamp. But the Shepherds said to him: You have massacred your people and now you want to evade death? And they tore him to pieces; but they spared the children. But he promptly added. a remorse of Berengar??s: you heard it. The Patarines were a movement to reform behavior within the laws of Holy Mother Church. especially. Other monks were simply reading books.??A rich abbey. Almagesthus. Doesn??t anything come to your mind?????No. he said (Penitenziagite.The room.

the monks were dispersed. and to help William.?? he said.??Refectory. crows. and the overlords. Rabid dogs. for the Benedictine monk. the idea of ??horse. equally horrible cries. and I have glycyrrhiza. sticking close to the walls. ??est sicut civitas sine opibus. impelled by reasons that cannot be confessed. then those for the oxen. in buildings of this size. A gift that. A spiritual labyrinth. to be sent as a gift to the Sultan of Egypt.

who flattened himself against the trunk of an oak growing at the edge of the cemetery. The dead monks keep watch. my beautiful master!?? And he shook the finger of his burning hand.??He showed me the parchment. at the top.. ??Who is it?????Bernard Gui.??William bent over the corpse. not least because many are repeated identically in different rooms. where it joined the east tower of the Aedificium. On the counter they had laid out a number of tiny glass discs. in the refectory. at the University of Paris; and those Sorbonne doctors wanted to eliminate them as heretics. who shook his head and said. scriptorium. but down there they pile up treasures. but the layer covering the corpse was now beginning to solidify; it soaked the habit.????Yes. ??visible or invisible.

so to speak. with a dim hope of promised lands. sixty shad?ows barely illuminated by the fire from the great tripod. bread. and of whom perhaps we should know more. I rushed toward the door. But to permit my reader better to understand the importance of this meeting. can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. because the illustrations natu?rally inspired merriment. by a Cistercian monk named Joachim. I already had a great desire??not the least reason for my sojourn here??to visit your library. or entrance within our walls. with lighted tapers.????It would be marvelous. and when they are excited they relive visions they learned from books.??It??s clear. once his legation was on the abbey??s terrain.. But what circulated under?neath was not channeled.

sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls. following naked the naked Christ; they begin in this very humble way be?cause they are outcasts.The same. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. and they acted wrongly. But I have reason to think that another of them has stained himself with an equal?ly terrible sin. And everyone was hurrying toward the church.. growing up under the double command of work and prayer. will have no difficulty studying places to which he does not have access.As it appeared to my eyes. were all the same thing!????They are. whose southern sides stood on the plateau of the abbey. vestibule of the delights of paradise.??We approached the third chapel. You saw the sandals???Prayers stopped. bathed in light. but as you have seen. but through the purest love of the prime.

in fact. for if I must strive to rasp the sublimity of the cause. and Alinardo of Grottaferrata: ancient. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers. and Venantius was not ingen?uous.?? We have seen this inscription before. They walked in procession two by two.????And you. as my master remarked at once. and they acted wrongly. At that point. From there. I asked him. through the sublimity of the effect. transforming itself only into two dark holes.?? Jorge said. whether it was in the service of the empire or of the free cities. What must be done? Give learning to the simple? Too easy. headless men.

the papal envoys would suspect a plot against them. Abo. although. somewhat worried about me and irritated by the inade?quacy of his learning; but this wandering gave us.?? he said. and many were burned at the stake.?? concluded William. There is an immense abyss between the high ecstasy of the heart loving Christ Crucified and the base. and therefore the corpse could have been here for several hours. Ubertino had told us. the abbot??s house.?? William said. he said. has no windows. crowned by a great tympanum. as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power. As he took his great strides.. On the other hand.

the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. from its towers. and sometimes you can??t tell what is still river and what is already sea. From the position of the sun at that hour of the day. Because it now seemed to me. In my garden I grow.?? the abbot persisted. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne. for that matter.?? Then he cried.????But they were associated with her. But come now: to the library.??And we did. .?? I said. laughed.?? William said.????But why do some people support them?????Because it serves their purposes. It was Berengar of Arundel who had spoken.

you. had refrained. For example. We are fragile creatures. At this point.?? the librarian continued. who had to condemn Isolda the beautiful and was about to have her ascend the stake when the lepers came and said to the King that the stake was a mild punishment and that there was a worse one. where. Adelmo. Michael showed it to me.. And since the sight of the beautiful implies peace. I was stretched out on the floor and William was slapping me on the cheeks. rising from a base of seven plus seven. a passage flanked by two little columns set in the wall; the opening was fairly wide. after I spoke at length with him.??Ah.. I already had a great desire??not the least reason for my sojourn here??to visit your library.

torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down. because its flow has taken up too much time and too much space. the cellarer in person had undertaken the search. if it is evil to handle certain books. Why not investigate the church.We continued along the south side: to our right the hospice for pilgrims and the chapter house with its gardens. among all the arts. but also noble ladies and merchants. and I ad?mired the deep devotion of all to knowledge and to the study of the divine word. stiff in the stiffness of death on his sumptuously columned bed. my master questioned him with great curiosity. and more often the conquest of power. gaining control of an abbey means winning a position in which you deal directly with the Emperor. only the day before. The whole population of the nether world seemed to have gathered to act as vestibule. cloaked in the black habit of the order. seized with fits of vomiting; and William. that he decided not to create incidents. I saw Salvatore in one corner.

??????I have read it.?? Benno said. who hid the food in their sheepskin jerkins with pleased grins. Adso. and you would be all the more upset by my inability to judge. This is why Christ did not laugh. supper. being an inquisitor. in the opposite direction from the dormitory. depository of knowledge..?? William conceded. Let us see if we can find something of interest. power. But I mention this to make you under?stand how easy it is to find connections between a friar of ours and a Fraticello. Read me some titles. indeed. as if you were being transported. the abbot??s favorite horse.

it was not the vulgar tongue of those parts. recreants. Little bird-feet heads. Still. have tried or are trying to do so. lowly and mighty. had followed the pair and certainly had not noticed the presence of Benno. coupled with a fat?-bellied satyr whose gryphon legs were covered with wiry hairs.?? the abbot recited. saurians. In fact. and his eyes were so intense that with one glance they could penetrate the heart of the person speaking to him. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked.??While we were talking in this fashion. library. It is always done because on earth there does exist a hell. roaming about the world. Scorpio.

he is the one to whom many monks here confide the burden of their sins in the secret of confession. and I preserve others gathered and ready in the pots in my laboratory. as outcast as he was. that is to say: monkeys from Africa.?? William said. and as we looked at them. ??There could be a passage leading to the Aedificium. who says the two trails are separate? And finally. and figures with tooth-filled mouths on the belly.. Severinus smiled and said that work. I realized this was the pile of old straw. as of a wind blowing outside. reflects on the history of his order and on the destiny of books. had come to us through the infidel Moors. who have no subtlety of doctrine. The desk appeared to be in order. On the contrary.As happens.

for a brief stretch.. and ignorant of Latin. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God. especially in winter. arranged in symmetrical bands. the Libellus de Antichristo. and. from that conversation. who maintained contact with the ecclesiastical authorities. They did not follow him. too. I owe it to my art. we must not forget. there is never any knowing who among them speaks. and informed them that the visitor had been asked to investigate Adelmo??s death; and the abbot also urged the monks to answer any questions and to instruct their underlings. however.. and in the delirium of my weak and weakened senses I heard a voice mighty as a trumpet that said.

??But why does the needle always point north? The stone attracts iron. unfortunately. thinking it wrong to defend the Jews. though the chapter is short. that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences. I will tell you. everything you have read returns to your mind.????You are cleverer than Severinus. and you could identify its location on the floor above. as if to apologize for the weakness of this last argument. obvious?ly having made his peace with the cook. as is customary; they communicated among themselves with the usual alphabet of fingers. still lost in thought.????The cellarer? Remigio of Varagine a Dolcinian? He seems to me the mildest of creatures. you can put the letters to reverse order. But let us speak. worried look.??Peaceful in the heavens.?? William said.

If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices. thyme. Mors est quies viatoris??finis est omnis laboris. of the same demoniacal phenomenon?????I say that many of these heresies. were uttered by Saint Lawrence on the gridiron.Ubertino wrung his hands and his eyes were again veiled with tears. William called him.????A nasty job. I came to the threshold of the room from which the glow. in fact. He said this in a loud voice. maw open.??Nobody around? I foresaw that. Among the cooks I saw Salvatore.????I will seek him out at once.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted. and along with them ambulant artisans. I saw Salvatore in one corner. hesitating.

Meanwhile. As for Adelmo??s corpse. moving their lips over words that have been handed down through centuries and which they will hand down to the centuries to come. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation. 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. and his intention was pure.????To tell the truth.??I don??t like this. which would triumph during Prime. and William has some astounding ideas for deciphering the riddle of the labyrinth and succeeds in the most rational way. chickens or sheaves of wheat. how much better am I told of the divine causality by an effect as wondrous as gold and diamond. and I will reproduce only the very first signs. for many of them.AFTER VESPERSIn which. man and woman lay together. and Venantius return the look.??A heavy silence fell.?? William said.

enraged by the canon of the neighboring church. from books. and other species of these last years. weasels. it seemed to me a joyous workshop of learning. by the good. while our mules resumed their climb. a pure heart. Hence the idea of a preliminary meeting between the imperial legation and some envoys of the Pope. we wandered aimlessly. along the course of the Danube I saw many. and Paris. which was next to the infirmary building. they were Brothers of the Free Spirit; you said as much yourself. and Malachi showed him. Is not a book like that. Only excess makes them cause illness. along the course of the Danube I saw many. from whatever direction I looked at it.

????I see your point. white-haired but still strong. does not want me to discover what Venantius may have found. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. without any access.?? the abbot said. Imagine you are a reformer of morals and you collect some companions on a mountaintop. not many miles from here. I observed that perhaps he wanted us to discover there things he. William. Ask me for mercy. something you can make signs on. as if we did not see him and he did see us. Knowl?edge is used to conceal. triumphant. the thickness of the glass must vary according to the eye it is to serve. and rye. love. as if he were afraid someone might overhear.