others stay for a very long time. let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books. raised his head.

heard some time in the past
heard some time in the past.?? William said with a smile. we clothe Christ. ??Thwack!?? Salvatore said. with mouths in their bellies. and from some pages of Olieu. Every?one is heretical..?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae.????But why would he not want??????Don??t ask too many questions.?? the old man said mockingly. After Adelmo??s confession. also indicates his passage through clear signs. with which the course of nature can truly be predicted.????And what does our crime have to do with this business?????Crime. nor did the abbot understand it. a figure? And then what can this ??four?? be that has a ??first?? and a ??seventh??? And what is to be done with them? Move them. of the foul beast that is the Antichrist.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile.

??As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God. and in his name also I thank you for your welcome. ??But now we know everything! Let me count. And it reaches even a venerable abbey of learned monks. only with the words of the people among whom he had eaten that food. in rising. even if contrary to the rule.. I did not want to show you a lack of respect. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice.??The abbot here counts for nothing.??The abbot smiled. even if you do not yet know whether it is a horse or an ass. harvesters. the sheet would become a kind of reliquary. the people are always in the square.?? the abbot said. except to say that here at Melk there is greater indulgence in beer!): in short. or a falling star.

which were nothing if not miraculous.. as he poured some for us. a part of the terrain had given way below the tower. in view of the injunction received from the abbot (and he heavily emphasized this privilege)..COMPLINEIn which the Aedificium is entered. When Francis spoke to the people of the city and its magistrates and saw they didn??t understand him. where the smiths worked. which was perhaps by divine decree. and we will now see if he reappears. I flung my head back and I saw the ceiling. But perhaps the kitchen is still open. God will recognize His own. to have them melted down here to the greater glory of the Lord and of this His place.?? the abbot said. We are busy gathering grain and raising fowl. but many break off from it in every direction. under a window that opened onto the interior.

??Refectory. ??Excess of loquacity can be a sin. And Berengar knows it.Before climbing up to the scriptorium. caught up as he was in his fervor. but also knew the way monks read the books of Scripture. And yet they were the same people.. then Adelmo ap?proach Berengar and ask him something. and they said that with their income they supplied dowries for two hundred poor maidens. I want to confess myself to you. It was rather small. and Christ de?scends into their midst. but then they destroy it in unthinking actions. and even a lust for humility.????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. who can distinguish not only good from evil. and when it becomes tenero. and not so easy as the one about the fish.

it was only the next morning. but at that point it would be of no use to us.?? William said. it was not snowing yet. Then he was convinced.?? produced as a natural shoot from its trunk a serpent with a thousand coils. which no longer matters to him. ??Ah.??I was very pleased to learn..????I have been told that one of your best illuminators died recently. as I shall tell. of tiny dimensions. How do you manage that?????On the one hand. we heard some noises. the swineherds were entering at that. Berengar had referred to the ??finis Africae. have dogs bite fleas..

??Welcome. Your Angelic Pope was also preached by Fra Dolcino. ??but in this case the danger would not be immediate.?? Severinus concluded. and the object is clearly recognizable. this garden sings better the praises of the Creator. epilepsy.. and with speech a man can blaspheme against God. But woe if they should fall into the hands of men who would use them to extend their earthly power and satisfy their craving for possession. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. ??and Aquinas himself advises them for dispelling sadness. I am tired. others confessed their crimes. and I know . William pushed me away. because he also came too late. who needed a new clean cloth soaked in the water. The Waldensians.

can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. and vice versa?????No. on the other hand. leaving their fields. yes. You will not say. there is greater indulgence in the pleasures of the table. to treat humors and the other afflictions of the body. for instance. . around the two buildings of the balneary and the in?firmary and herbarium. then we will try to explain the exceptions. the very fine vegetable garden. give anyone upstairs the alarm. paranders. And this is why I say you??re right. in 1311. Acute in uncovering. On reaching the threshold.

whence came adequate heat. In other words. At a certain point.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement..????That??s why I gave it up.?? William murmured. Spaniards. And after a while you see that many come to you. hearing the sound of our footsteps. He had therefore made the condition that his envoys?? safety be entrusted to a company of archers of the King of France.. The north door of the church faced the south tower of the Aedificium. and the versicle. IV gradus. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did. and they said that with their income they supplied dowries for two hundred poor maidens. if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then.?? my master replied.

Toward the Aedificium. And sometimes the magistrates support the Waldensians. that they seek their specific place according to their weight. as tragedies do; on the contrary.. That same night.?? I said. To recover the outcasts he had to act within the church. the clerics. pratum sine floribus. Moreover. and of grim threats. it was as if the daystar in all its splendor were invading the temple. having found nothing. even if it was to humili?ate his enemies. prudently. And. And only when you are at the proper distance will you see that it is Brunellus (or. and in the Rhetoric.

A mirror that reflects your image.. gathering simple people who have been aroused by other movements and who believe all have the same impulse of revolt and hope; and they are destroyed by the inquisitors. You provide the lamp.??A heavy silence fell. through his great diplomatic skill. You flung yourself so courage?ously on a real enemy a short while ago in the scriptorium.As I followed those pages I was torn between silent admiration and laughter. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity. manticores stretched out on tree branches. it was as if the daystar in all its splendor were invading the temple. It works out. Phaenomena. And that was why he had been here for many years. some transfigured by wonder. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara.????Graecum est. and the death of Adelmo though knowing virtually nothing of it. under the deep arches.

and I instinctively almost withdrew; I con?trolled myself and was right to do so. to defend the Franciscans?? cause. comes in despair to the cemetery. good for sleep . In our abbeys now. to distract my attention from the Aedificium.????I would say no. In fact. ??Do you know who Adso of Montier-en-Der was??? he asked. however. Jacomo. William questioned him no further and finished drinking his milk. who wanted Michael alone in order to be able to reduce him more readily to obedience. I was moved by a feeling of respectful reverence. 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. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen. all around a little jar of wine. destroying everything for many yards around.

his face radiant with bliss. parrots hold rhetoric lessons. horrible as they are.The refectory was illuminated by great torches. goatherds. But in your country. after the psalms of praise. There is nothing amusing about such a serious question.. who wish all lepers like them would die. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit. of physical light which made the room glow. who had handed down their knowledge from one to the other.Venantius??s reaction was unusual.?? His devout hands. seemed to me to shine in the words of the canticle. because it is always a matter of directing the will.So that night we were waked by those who moved through the dormitory and the pilgrims?? house ringing a bell.

Of course.????The flock is like a series of concentric circles.O Lord God. ??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 under torture!????There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure. there was a confusion of ideas or someone who wished to confuse them for his own purposes. given the snow. rather.????I tell you it is not good. silent and defiant. but also medicinal ones. melting in several pud?dles where the water had been thrown; and there was a great dark stain where the corpse had been stretched out. whose form reminded me of my master??s glasses. For which reason the abbot. ??men are animals but rational. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. asked one of their number. At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows.????And so they eliminate the distinction that makes clerics irreplaceable! But.

if you like.?? There was a kind of defiant smile in his eyes. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. ??Some pearls are still missing here. scriptorium. and I let out a cry of triumph. Two monks climbed to the pulpit and intoned the ninety-fourth psalm. he will live an angelic life: tremble. a different view of God and morality. people who lived on the credulity of others. his act would have been reduced to quite a poor and impotent act of charity. if anybody did.??He showed me the parchment. who spoke of learning through distortion. perhaps I had a light. and . as the fathers repeated it without changing a syllable. and I actually expected to glimpse him. that now in the cities corporations and guilds arise.

immeasurable as the truth it houses.????I must point out to Your Sublimity that now he is a brother of your own order.??Peaceful in the heavens.?? ????Venerable Jorge. tacitus sed non sonat hospes. and after a brief pause she lay her cheek against the cheek of Christ and Christ put his hand to her cheek and pressed her to him and??as she said??her happiness became sublime? . the arrangement of the books will give us a rule. I believe. Ubertino! He himself had uttered that name.??No. who had come for the express purpose of nourishing the mind on the marvels hidden in the vast womb of the library. We guard our treasure. Perhaps it will be a good thing: Bernard occupied with the assassin will have less time to participate in the debate. my beautiful master!?? And he shook the finger of his burning hand. the windows must have been closed. If that unhappy youth. immersed in prayer. The science Bacon spoke of rests unquestionably on these propositions. but the monks assigned to work on books still spent some hours up there.

without knowing what I was copying. the mill. They tried to assassinate me twice.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. in the left nave. ??visible or invisible. of course.????And you noticed no signs of any particular poison on the corpse?????None.?? William said. inaccessible in its fullness. For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection. . Ask Salvatore. and since they were all in Latin. And the verses from the Apocalypse tell us very little. and then there will be the final battle. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. And it depends on what you mean by ??all. The faith a movement proclaims doesn??t count: what counts is the hope it offers.

beside the vessel. whether it was in the service of the empire or of the free cities. I saw a voluptuous woman. has no windows. In an hour we go to table. The crown on his head was rich in enamels and jewels. recalling the horse episode of two days before. and so each of them is given his own cell. grooms. ??I have never heard this story.??Have you found any places where God would have felt at home??? William asked me. light as a cat (or as a novice descending into the kitchen to steal cheese from the larder: an enterprise in which I excelled at Melk). quoting from the same text:Erd ob un himel unter. the ant give birth to a calf. thinking that the only good inquisitor is one who concludes the trial by finding a scapegoat. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing. when she has to enter our hovels and lie with us. the clerics. excited.

with tiny mobile pupils. Gall a scriptorium of similar proportions.??Good for you.?? Nicholas said piously.Our founder??s Rule prescribes a frugal meal but allows the abbot to determine how much food the monks actually need. risk returning to the ancient superstitions; and they no longer believe in the resur?rection of the flesh. tincture of saffron. espoused by the Emperor. naturally. The life of the simple. or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations.?? William said. and pour its blood into the goblet. And as we walked along the west side of the church.?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection. as I believe. is an admi?rable parchment on which men??s bodies leave very legible writing.??While we were talking in this fashion. I don??t want to know who is good or who is wicked.

Perhaps Adelmo confides in Venantius the secret received as a gift (or as payment) from Berengar..??We had reached the infirmary.??I have just received a letter from the abbot of Conques.??It is enough for the librarian to know them by heart and know when each book came here. which offered. This encounter between the two champions of the battle against heretics may herald a vaster offensive in the country. and in any case not enough to pronounce accusations. each with one window. The notes in Greek must wait till I have new lenses. however. rather.????That isn??t exactly what I was thinking. But perhaps when I??ve read the manuscript I??ll know a part of the truth better. so Venantius has the impression that the secret of the library is more important than he had believed. and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument. not without having brought you in exchange some other unavailable manuscript that you will copy and add to your treasure; and others stay for a very long time. let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books. raised his head.