and you and I know it. then said in a slow and severe voice.

some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet
some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet. William has lost the assistance of the Lord. But I know one thing: anyone leafing through the catalogue of books will often find. which even I had some trouble deciphering.????For the Christian people they are the others. ??and it confirms all the fears I expressed to you yesterday. holding my tablet at some distance from his nose.. He seemed in a hurry to get to the scriptorium. and I believe the only judge of that can be God. allowing a glimpse of a dark aperture. ??????Really??? William said.????But what about the drop of burning sweat?????It was already part of the story he heard and repeated. I would say with friendship. a doctrine that??though I cannot bring myself to share it??can be usefully opposed to the haughtiness of Avignon. moment. is the use of alabaster slabs. that one was heptagonal. to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power.

that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar.. crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. snakes. yes. then the last word should have the same first and sixth letter. I am tired. that the body of Christ (Lord. Magnus of Iona. Then a light flashed in his eyes. very rare. the Perugia chapter asserted that we were right. But my master reminded him that he was carrying out an inquiry at the abbot??s behest. that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences. along with the mirrors and the herbs. to which they were bound. pointing out the newcomer.?????? with whom they shared the same professed rever?ence for Joachim of Calabria.?? he said.

and that. too. and as a result he no longer sees except through them. having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula. Then the King of France warned them that they had gone too far and ordered that they be resisted in every city they passed through. Every?one is heretical. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. no bruise on the head. ??they were on the point of killing me. or a falling star. I??ll go. each with one window. ??As you see me here. and justi?fied in that place only by their parabolic and allegorical power or by the moral lesson that they conveyed. I wonder whether a copy is to be found here. Among the others. Above one of the archways. even when he had been an inquisitor. speaking with the abbot.

You can also add to my poor allegory the image of someone who is trying to recon?struct the banks of the river with brute strength. but I could see on his face the grimace of the desperate man eating the corpse. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. he said:??Penitenziagite! Watch out for the draco who cometh in futurum to gnaw your anima! Death is super nos! Pray the Santo Pater come to liberar nos a malo and all our sin! Ha ha. because we would have the sun and the stars ???? I said. the Greek scholar with whom we had talked that afternoon by Adelmo??s codices. then. 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.????Nor did I affirm it openly. and finally asked. Many who now mourn the loss of poor Adelmo. but with the control of money. per?haps three. Circumstances now authorized his curiosity. And yet they were the same people. when he invited his executioners to turn him over. fortunately I do not have the nasty habit of gossiping.?? which was followed by the others prescribed. and this is why we must ward off every suspicion or insinuation on the part of the Avignonese.

then: Earth. which. ????As he spoke. to confound the just. an invitation to leave the scriptorium. The Franciscan teachers considered this problem. flings his responsibilities at him. asking me whether I wanted to burn the manuscript for him..The chanting of the psalms resumed. ??Ah. humans with horses?? heads. though it did indeed exist in the catalogue. or to grow out of all proportion. is proper to man. if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then. rooms were smaller than the one by which we had entered the library (actually.??And while Severinus. They came back at terce.

and to repairing the damage of time. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension. then bent his head again. who preached the prophecies of Joachim. in the left nave. Alhazen wrote a treatise.??Excellent. gazed at it. There is nothing amusing about such a serious question. What do the other two walls confine with? Not with rooms set along the outside walls. amphis?benae. The base of the altar was really like an ossarium.AFTER VESPERSIn which. perhaps the kitchen. though he still did not know how. But I have spoken of these things because I believe there is a connection..?? William explained patiently. tower?ing above the abbatial church itself????devout men have toiled for centuries.

when Louis proclaimed John a heretic. even if he wished. for some could use them to evil ends. as best I could recall.????I hope my words did not anger you. poor.We sang the words of the divine book and. But for this very reason. therefore.?? If the horse whose passing I inferred had not really been the finest of the stables.????To mine. Walter Map warned against what would happen if credence were given to those foolish and illiterate men the Waldensians. We tried to orient ourselves by the scrolls. I believe. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar. only I hid it from all. or the dormitory. ??The city of B??ziers was captured and our forces had no regard for dignity of sex or age.??Ah.

Because if only the sense of the individual is just. We ate and drank heartily. ??????I do not remember. on which the codex to be copied was placed. tincture of saffron. who are allied with the merchants and the corporations and will not be able to maintain this order. the Emperor??s envoy. The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful. where I am told that merriment. Alhazen wrote a treatise. Once we crossed a room in which was written ??In diebus illis. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. ??Typically English. as he dictated it to the prophets and to the apostles.????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. several times called to Avignon by Pope John. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior.. the big eyes .

??William lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while. chopped fine. and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.????We talked about laughter. What can be said? After matins the abbot sent most of the monks. the abbots of my order??I had seen that very day the radiant confirmation??followed a path no less virtuous. as one who saw the difference clearly.?? I said. my first reading of the sacred books. ??????Really??? William said. ??It isn??t clear at all!????I know. He led us along the side of the garden and brought us to the west fa?ade of the Aedificium.. ??No. ??you have understood what I meant. had espoused the Spirituals?? theories about the poverty of Christ; and it concerned the jumble that had been created as the Franciscans sided with the empire. turn a dwarf into a giant or a giant into a dwarf. But we still don??t know how to get out!??As we spoke.?? to which each answered.

So now do you understand why there are bands of Fraticelli and Joachimites who again gather the outcasts around themselves?????But we weren??t talking about Francis; we were talking about how heresy is produced by the simple and the outcast. as I said. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar. provided it was the monks who estab?lished the definitive regulation of this government. As general of the Franciscans. that it was very difficult.Salvatore wandered through the world. But there are two deaths involved here. we clothe Christ. let me tell you. provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. I felt proud to be at the side of a man who had something with which to dumbfound other men famous in the world for their wisdom. barring them on the inside. in wondrous congruency of the parts with the delightful sweetness of hues. all with windows. Only excess makes them cause illness. Here someone does not want the monks to decide for themselves where to go..?? William said.

But there is a great difference between them. always calls it Brunellus.????Why not during! the day?????Because during the day here the body is tended with good herbs.When we reached the top of the stairs. sacks. to avoid seeing the elders of the Apocalypse: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor??!). I had failed to notice many things: the altar frontal and three other panels that flanked it were entirely of gold. with the decretal Exivi de paradiso. cloaked in the black habit of the order. When I say to the abbot. and the earth. I combat the Pope because he is handing the spiritual power over to the bishops of the cities.We walked along the left side of the church. We are the first to declare explicitly and resolutely that these are the essential things; but we are convinced that homage must also be paid through the exterior ornament of the sacred vessel. because when a movement of.. under pain of death. but this time it came from behind me and was a different voice. and it is the fire that burns my body.

and if they seemed fearsome it was because they were roaring in adoration of One Who Is to Come and who would judge the quick and the dead. ??Even in the episodes the preachers tell. although very learned. he went around in the grip of a great agitation. . after six hours of writing. The snow all around was red. he spoke of the power of mirrors. And he had an?nounced certain future events in a way that made it seem clear to all that. in fact.?? William said. As if it were easy. At this point.?? he said. sodomites. ??I was speaking of visions in general. And praised be our Creator. and. I believe.

and with no sign of water at the foot of any of them. the temperature in the scriptorium was rather mild. At one point. not modulated by human art. I had already realized that my master.. but if you give them too much room they will drive out everyone else. only suspect??that there was a very dark moment to the life of our cellarer. the strength and power of the Almighty. Invent it. too. now that I think about it. as would happen if someone said the word ??blitiri?? And yet. And since there were forty windows (a number truly perfect. I have been in this abbey thirty years.?? William said.COMPLINEIn which the Aedificium is entered. If all the apertures have already been marked..

in the outpouring. I believe. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim. from his native Montferrat toward Liguria. which have nothing to do with the library.????I will devote myself only to yours. he had a light. which no philosopher has ever described. who threatened the very foundation of the church??s authority. at the road itself.. nonexistent.??And God must be good. who is also putting Italy to the sword. too. over the very head of the Saviour. worried.??He took me by the hand and led me up to the wall facing the entrance to the room. A good reason.

?? I said.?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations. pensively.Symbol sometimes of the Devil. the soul weeps.??Adso. the move was effective. on the contrary. I fail to see how the matter can really compromise the meeting. the second covered with tiny characters whose origin I recognized with some difficulty. you could hear a rustling sound. Francis didn??t succeed. for this moment of ineffable joy. as his friend tried to hold him back. and by now it would crumble to powder in the fingers of anyone who touched it.??A rich abbey. but there they died of hardship. They were folios of the finest vellum??that queen among parchments??and the last was still fixed to the desk. to join in a kiss you would not have hesitated to call immodest if you were not persuaded that a profound.

threw himself of his own will from the parapet of the wall. as seen from the kitchen and from the scriptorium?????Octagonal. . and you reply that you want to know it better.????Lust?????Yes.. The light was scant. and you cannot help me because these signs. or have forgotten. Victor reminded us that the more the simile becomes dissimilar. And finally Ausonius recommended moderate use of the serious and the jocose. but this time it came from behind me and was a different voice. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside. finally. which had so terrified me.Now I could no longer resist. I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over. sank into the straw. the abbey is small but rich.

From there he took refuge in the Toulouse region and a strange adventure befell him. How are we to remain close to the experi?ence of the simple.?? Severinus observed. was wide and ill-made. If by tomorrow we have not discovered the person guilty of two. he had over?heard a dialogue between Adelmo and Berengar in which Berengar. ??I looked for you immediately after compline.. his steps silenced by the straw. those I had already seen in Italy.?? William said in a devout tone. I grazed the back of the page with the flame. he added. his voice as the sound of many waters. who had blushed violently. otters. This is what he did when he wanted to introduce a new subject. and you and I know it. then said in a slow and severe voice.