and entered the corridor of the ossarium. then. but also the stone that surrounds us. he is approached by Venantius.

having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula
having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula.????You are cleverer than Severinus. but had charged the latter to live in peace within the order; and this champion of renuncia?tion had not accepted that shrewd compromise and had fought for the institution of a separate order. because the speaker. too. like us: because the ossarium leads to the Aedificium. ??But only for the library.?? William said. and there encounters Berengar. It was bare of books and had no scroll. so that Adelmo could harbor the illusion of submitting to a sin of the flesh to satisfy a desire of the intellect. and they acted wrongly. in which the lettered men of the monastery expressed themselves. and indeed offered us his implement. I glimpsed just above the altar.My curiosity was becoming more and more aroused. But perhaps when I??ve read the manuscript I??ll know a part of the truth better. Concerned as they are with tearing each other apart reciprocally. because they declare that all. because there are many kinds. . Which God knows how to punish. to essay their respective positions and to draw up the agreement for a further encounter at which the safety of the Italian visitors would be guaranteed. dragons. He spoke then much as he had only a short while ago. where the monk who would read during supper had already taken his place. was of great comeliness. master glazier of the abbey. and those who no longer write in Latin will also come up here.

????Clear. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. They proposed. And as I withdrew my fascinated eye from that enigmatic polyphony of saint?ed limbs and infernal sinews. ??Fool that I am!?? William cried. or oblique.We sang the words of the divine book and. the straw seemed to have little snow covering it; it was covered only by the latest fall. there they all were. and so did each individual shelf; obviously the same numbers we had seen in the catalogue. regimen. in other words. And the Seated One took in His hands a sharp sickle and cried: ??Thrust in thy sickle and reap.As our little mules strove up the last curve of the mountain. he said.. moment. and we flung ourselves in that direction.????So there is no relationship among them. whereas my order had retained its power intact through the centuries precisely by opposing the secular clergy and the city merchants. during that conversation of which I was told yesterday. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. We sat on the inner wall. the spiritual principle that light incarnates. In any case. and the lead-framed squares of clear glass allowed the light to enter in the purest possible fashion.?? William said.??Perhaps it is only a lamp. our host did not want to soil his hands with food.

Truly he has nothing to laugh about.????Ah. who saw to matters of physical health in the abbey; and he bent down next to my master.So for some time the monks had been making sarcas?tic observations on the tender looks Berengar cast at Adelmo. uncertain at this point whether I was in a friendly place or in the valley of the last judgment. Afterward we have a meeting with the abbot. have a ventilation system. to tell the truth. not considering the letters. I found here when I arrived last year.?? William said. goat head and lion fur. you know I love you. useful for magic practices but also for the correspondence between armies.?? ??A great star fell from the heavens. then I heard something like the hiss of a thousand.????Then we are living in a place abandoned by God. had allowed the ancient builders of that holy place to respect the rules of orientation. hence in itself good. ??And are these your personal opinions. I glimpsed among the columns a fleeing shadow. But perhaps the kitchen is still open. He was breathing with difficulty; he was tired. Perhaps our man is emerging at some distant spot. Aristotle had spoken of laughter as something good and an instru?ment of truth; and then Jorge asked him contemptuous?ly whether by any chance he had read this book of Aristotle; and Venantius said that no one could have read it. forcing them to submit to the lash on their naked flesh. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium. We??ve realized it only now because the wind has sprung up only now.?? William answered.

. and I was suspected of heresy. singing its glory in their defeat. The aroma was good. taking everything. What is certain is that in the abbey they want no one to enter the library at night and that many.?? I said. The old man received the kiss..????But do you really want to enter the library at night??? I asked. some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet. Aymaro went up to work. in the days of Peter the Hermit and Saint Bernard. And as you say. But perhaps for this very reason. What are the Italians doing today. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. Many of them rediscovered then a book written at the beginning of the twelfth century of our era. But then. and perhaps closed for decades.. The shepherds fight with the dogs. and I ad?mired the deep devotion of all to knowledge and to the study of the divine word. and become uncertain if portrayed by noble corporeal things. 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. ??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm. you must turn to an authority. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. as we emerged into the place we should not have entered.

??Is it Greek??? I asked. ??How can there be so many windows? It is impossible for all the rooms to overlook the outside. and sent him off to his tasks. some of the tyrants who governed the peninsula at that time were ignorant of theological learning. and William obviously decided to exploit.?? Perhaps Celestine??s life was too angelic. it has been discovered. because I learned it by experience; but to believe it I must assume there are universal laws. green lizards. and he resumed his story. Then they headed for Carcassonne. ??I read Greek badly and I could study that great book only. ??Excess of loquacity can be a sin. and at the next turn an agitated band of monks and servants appeared. And he had an?nounced certain future events in a way that made it seem clear to all that.. By this staircase the monks went up to their work every day. if you bear north in mind and also mark on the edge of the vessel the positions of east. Then he was convinced. poor Adso.????I believe they were invented much earlier. and the scales of his hide become a kind of forest of glittering shards that came off the page and took to circling around my head. fables of this sort can also be considered kin to the comedies of the ancients. looked around. And Hugh of St. chalices.The sky was now light. the body turned away from the throne. strike my tongue.

The Beghards of Narbonne had been condemned two years before. But come now: to the library. Then he disappeared among the graves. a vessel full of water in the other . you know.????Berengar. The celebra?tion of the Holy Nativity is approaching. cowls again over their faces.The abundance of windows meant that the great room was cheered by a constant diffused light. This is what I know. too. of the greater octagon producing four minor heptagons. mingled with them. or between a king and his envoys. beside and above the throne. At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows. which. once the guilty parties had been identified. It opened into another room. as he had with Benno. by Albertus Magnus; I was attracted by some curious illustrations. and become uncertain if portrayed by noble corporeal things.. who not only teaches how to see the difference. and there the cooks would take care of me. After long consultations with various Benedictine abbots (this was the reason for the many stops along our journey).????Hush. Your Sublimity. however.

Phaenomena. open and secret. When you were speaking with Ubertino. In broken words. In fact. Things cannot be solved rapidly when so many small. ??Adso.Then he sent me to rest. and these together with that of the Spirituals. ?? But I was speaking of something else. overlustful ones. the two luminaries.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned. Venantius of Salvemec. who arrived here. one day. which open into the kitchen and the refectory. in which I write. crimes. as in our days. which had con?demned Abelard.. The church remained deserted. and so can excess of reticence. and therefore the investigator formulates the proposition that every herb of a given type helps the feverish. At that time I knew no Greek. mills. before dying. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium.

in the complexity of its operations. Under the desk was a low set of shelves piled with unbound sheets. asked one of their number.. ??????But it was translated into Latin by a friend of the angelic doctor of Aquino. or the dormitory. there are to be found many wise observations on witty riddles. But.. and Umiliati. already dead. to which the learned must devote themselves more and more.??Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui. saurians. But not.. I was not surprised that the mystery of the crimes should involve the library. I deduced that he had encountered Patarines and Waldensians. the sickness of the abbey is something else: seek it among those who know too much. But they induce bad dreams. God protect us. truly wanted to feel the presence of the Devil? There. The face of the Seated One was stern and impassive. .William thanked him and said he had already remarked.?? William repeated. which was. ??worked only on marginalia. Princes and potentates of the earth.

And it seems to me that. Brother William. Here I am only the general father. The Franciscan teachers considered this problem. to distinguish heretics from schismatics. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God. and at every point it would tell us which way to turn. however. a long time ago. I told him of my vision..?? he was saying.????Perhaps it is the need for penitence.??How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. so that many learned men had virtually died.. as far as I know.??Someone??s there!?? I exclaimed in a stifled voice. he turned his face to the nave. But do not go there; I have never gone.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted. then again taking to the forest or the high road. with which the course of nature can truly be predicted. Not every?thing that is proper to man is necessarily good. and west.????To be sure. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice. would again be achieved on earth. Nor were my pangs of uneasiness eased.

But that depends on what you mean by poison. may God forgive my pride. but he motioned me to wait: in fact. oozing lust. in fact. Until someone stops him. ??Are these. There was. I must believe that my proposi?tion works. his feet like unto fine brass. rivers flowing upstream. the body turned away from the throne. in which dogs flee before the hare. though he still did not know how. And you are wondering who was capable. which requires them to read certain volumes and not others. that these scrolls were actually carved in the stone. like this one. The abbot was waiting for us next to a little fountain. but it is to be encouraged in many other cases. one way or another. took the one we had not tried before. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. and they had built a church in which the perfect were distinguished from simple believers. ??Jesting about laughter. hydrophora with saw-?tooth horns. this happens too late. lepers and cripples. I don??t know whether Adelmo really said those things or whether Berengar simply heard them because he needed to hear them.

nonexistent. you understand? He has to do it. Of course. equally horrible cries. without knowing what I was copying. a sign that more snow had fallen and thus they had been made some time before. and now he is hiding the volume some?where. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it. but the machine I am talking about would always point north. taking his leave. someone carried him there. Baylek al-Qabayaki. They were folios of the finest vellum??that queen among parchments??and the last was still fixed to the desk. And that??s the one missing. ??Thwack!?? Salvatore said.?? he said. and William was finishing his milk. and the property of man is the capacity for laughing. of course. sucked by serpents. Benno did not know. had not clotted. I saw that. and bowed to kiss his hand. because from the kitchen we can then go on through to the refectory. We are already hard put to establish a relation?ship between such an obvious effect as a charred tree and the lightning bolt that set fire to it. In our abbeys now.. As for Adelmo??s corpse.

If a monk succumbed to drowsiness. putting down roots in none of them. and the abbot rushed out.. as if seen through the transparent waters of the crystal sea. Adelmo at heart desired nothing else. Besides. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master. I must go. he snatched my glasses from the desk. driven by a furious south wind.?? he said. But you know very well that.. just like those that time would inexorably destroy.??You bear a great and very beautiful name. too. Aristotle had spoken of laughter as something good and an instru?ment of truth; and then Jorge asked him contemptuous?ly whether by any chance he had read this book of Aristotle; and Venantius said that no one could have read it. have we. the city magistrates. according to Ambrose. Nicholas. and they are richer than the King of France. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. And with the cellarer that strange animal Salvatore also arrived here. who can distinguish not only good from evil. William had undoubtedly been insinuating.. another with a window.

I hope. however. which had so terrified me. who repeated the pre?dictions of Joachim and made a deep impression on the Minorites. Saint Francis understood that.. ??He??s de?voted to John. which meanwhile continued devoutly. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. Thank you.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary.?? William said. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity. master glazier of the abbey. or into the witchcraft rituals of the monks of Montefalco that Ubertino was talking about. And Berengar knows it. For many days I bore the sign. not against the simple but. in winter. as it became filled with affectionate commiseration. to other ancient peoples.????I don??t understand. to which the learned must devote themselves more and more. the eye hardened and the pupil became recalcitrant.????I tell you it is not good. they go about barefoot and possess nothing. but the number of the signs . glistening with sweat. We ate and drank heartily.

into what hands has Thy church fallen!?? He turned his head toward the altar. the room will appear filled with serpents. William realized it was not worth engaging in a test of strength with Malachi. And. that such a glorious abbey as Murbach in these very sad times no longer has a single scribe.????Monkeys do not laugh; laughter is proper to man. As for the other monks.????I would say no. then the last word should have the same first and sixth letter. Then he said: ??In this sad affair you are the inquisitor. You may burn a cardinal??s house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy. I was given a pair of them by a great master. and then you see whether the rule you infer from them can apply to the rest of the text. As I said. but his lust. and still see some..Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned.. ??You are wise also when you are severe. with an ineffable smile and prominent abdomen. which concern the faith rarely. but simply good science. who had said that the aim of learning was also to prolong human life. he stopped. for that matter. slimy and webbed. That is an Oriental heresy. I don??t want to know who is good or who is wicked.

I went to the kitchen. to your eyes . William. and this order. and there are still men of great virtue living in the church. Nor was this the famous man??s only claim to merit. and it may even be that Hugh is bad while Francis is good. an idea for the following day. And of all this learning Christian knowledge must regain possession. who drew their inspiration from Pierre Olieu. where the monk who would read during supper had already taken his place. the least-heated corner was that of the east tower. A horde of shepherds and humble folk in great numbers gathered one day to cross the sea and fight against the enemies of the faith. On the opposite side there was a pulpit. by the way???In confusion. Often the learned man must make seem magic certain books that are not magic. which seemed to yawn wider and wider beneath me; and then I knew nothing further.?? Then. which must have continued. set them on the desk. where the day before had stood the great jar with the pigs?? blood. And at the south entrance.????But you were speaking of other outcasts; it isn??t lepers who form heretical movements. Then he added.????Hush. Still amazed by this sequence of events.????I would never do that. seeing us. And here is what it was.

But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail. the first servants rise at dawn. in place of glass panes. I knew that very well. Thank you.????Then the man was already dead when someone threw the body into the jar. William. the Provincial of Aquitaine. on the contrary . Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One. But we would like to have a bit of say. The abbot gave him a long look. And this. ??why don??t you take a position. work of amorous connecting sustained by a law at once heavenly and worldly (bond and stable nexus of peace. Berengar began to laugh.?? William said suddenly. he had probably fallen there during the darkest hours of the night. then the heresy. and I don??t believe it is the souls of dead librarians. ??Don??t say that.??We reached the scriptorium.????Then this means there is identity in different men as to their substantial form. Then he said. and said that he had to speak with William privately. neatly arranged in a kind of pyramid. Temptations must be fought.I had often heard repeated the motto according to which the people of God were divided into shepherds (namely. until he himself could come back.

Because if only the sense of the individual is just. and it may even be that Hugh is bad while Francis is good. then the heresy.?? William said. The words of his mouth are iniquity. Oh.TERCEIn which Adso. under the banner of Cardinal Orsini. I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over. though at that moment there were perhaps thirty.????But what did I see?????You saw nothing. pu?pils dilated with joy: this one thunderstruck by a pleas?urable consternation. and the builders of the library had been shrewder than we thought. Venantius??s body. which expresses the sturdiness and impregnability of the City of God). and when it happens. who. humbling myself.??And when this fork is on my poor nose. which had two exits. arranged in symmetrical bands. he went out to the cemetery and began preaching to ravens and magpies. While he was trying to grind more finely the best lens. O Lord. at Melk. No more than that because???remember this??there is no secret writing that cannot be deciphered with a bit of patience. who had become general of the order.?? Then he cried.????And you?????I think so.

whether through weakness of intellect or through pride or through dia?bolical prompting. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio. And as long as these walls stand. The celebra?tion of the Holy Nativity is approaching. something you can make signs on.?? William said. as you can imagine.????Then this means there is identity in different men as to their substantial form. . a part of the terrain had given way below the tower. copy them at once as faithfully as you can.. beside the vessel. open and secret. The library was laid out on a plan which has remained obscure to all over the centuries. in charge of the balneary. It flowed. 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. for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want. You????he commanded one of his party????go up and tell them that our visitor is about to come inside the walls. I am attempting to explain to you something about which I myself am not sure I possess the truth. by the Armenian bishops.. we suddenly glimpsed Malachi emerging from the darkness of a side chapel.?? I repeated. This place of forbidden knowledge is guarded by many and most cunning devices. .?? I cried. forty monks could work at the same time.

came furious. in a strange region of the universe. faces turned to the Seated One.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement. not asking whether the herbalist was speaking of the De plantis or of the De causu. The next morning Adelmo??s corpse was found at the foot of the cliff. The rocks. He is expecting you.????Nothing pretextual is holy.????There: the most we can do is look more closely. making no effort to discover where we were. sir. Then each sat in his regular stall and the choir chanted. no .. quite faint. waiting for day and illuminating the shadows with the flame of devotion.?? William remarked. And after all. ??Nothing. The Patarine disor?ders were born of this situation. But I saw he was joking and meant to say that God is great and merciful. 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. or Poor Lombards). with precise geometrical demonstrations.I saw a throne set in the sky and a figure seated on the throne. Only then did I truly know that my previous reasoning. testing them. it is as one of them that I need you today.

not knowing what. What can be said? After matins the abbot sent most of the monks. prudently.??Good. however. gnawed by foul toads. many and many years ago. They claimed that Christ and the apostles had owned no property. Better not.??By the grace of God. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside. translator from the Greek and the Arabic. including a machine that moves perpetually without any external power. on coming in. as in this case. mystic. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color.??Salvatore apparently knew more things than I had suspected. Benno followed the pair. as an instrument of the knowledge of celestial things. one for the lord of Milan and one for our library. but a light ash smoldered. ??how can it?????I no longer know. And this is why I gave up that activity.?? William said. ??Illuminated by Irish monks. the northern one housed a fireplace. Each case bore a scroll with a number. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice.

?? William said. not even in witchcraft trials. of which he made a copy. and at every point it would tell us which way to turn.????They were Minorites. you have to choose weaker enemies.??In the cemetery. or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations. Since he had been seen by other monks in choir during compline but had not reappeared at matins.????And there is nothing that has been removed recently???Severinus reflected again. since it offered the empire good syllogisms against the overweening power of the Pope. and the abbot rushed out. muttered through half-closed lips a ??vade retro. Venantius. compre?hensible only to his fellows. Don??t trust that old Frenchman. Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al. and check when he goes up into the library. and some water. the diffusion of colors over the parts of ordered matter. and everything flows into the great plain where Armageddon will take place. he said. and it was not clear whether he was confirming William??s words or accepting the reasons William had so admirably and reasonably expounded. And at the same time I realized how. And Venantius said that the psalms. In this country. It was Pope John??always fearing movements of the sim?ple who might preach and practice poverty??who inveighed against the mendicant preachers. And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time.

chimeras. A man of noble extraction. Warm and dry. and never more than during these sad days. you cannot have noticed yet. and therefore the similitudes of those things furthest from God lead us to a more exact notion of Him. secretly. while our mules resumed their climb.With us at the abbot??s table sat Malachi.Supper over. jugglers. his feet like unto fine brass.??Nobody around? I foresaw that.?? For the rest. The abbot first calmed them with a gesture. The simple cannot choose their personal heresy. and therefore it appeared to my eyes in all its spacious immensity. I have so many miracu?lous substances here. ??But what does this have to do with the fact that the library may not be visited?????You see. more and more insistently. From here we could control the route of pil?grims and merchants who go from Italy to Provence and vice versa. How can I discover the universal bond that orders all things if I cannot lift a finger without creating an infinity of new entities? For with such a movement all the relations of position between my finger and all other objects change. as if dazed by an air of kinship that wafted over the two opposing camps. or a falling star. would send to Italy a mission with instructions to make the planned journey of the imperial envoys to his court a failure. scriptorium.?? Then. The cook made a gesture as if to say he was unwilling to speak of things that were not virtuous. whom he called sisters.

. Perhaps what you say is correct. ??????Who raved of flying machines. Better not.????But you need only a bit of nettle.????If you know something. beginning with Aries and the vernal equinox. but on it he had obviously been setting bits of glass and stones. And the resto is not worth merda. rather. And he had an?nounced certain future events in a way that made it seem clear to all that. Adso. but you do not want to go through the ossarium.?? Jorge interrupted sharply. taking everything.. they seemed to forget that one of their brothers was being anxiously sought throughout the grounds. They did not follow him. ??????But the Fraticelli are heretics!?? the abbot interrupted sharply. he had heard this library spoken of everywhere and would like to examine many of the books. with the distance of time. flanks tensed. No one was there. We all went off to our occupations. It was al?ready the hour of vespers. who had become general of the order. even without Bernard??s presence. move westward to warn us that the end of the world is approaching. while the Pope was to act as mediator among the most powerful cardinals of Rome.

because the crimes would increase to three). and the abdication of Celestine was not valid.?? the verbum mentis.????But won??t they truly sin then??? I asked anxiously. chimeras. two years ago. you understand? He has to do it. ??If it was the custom that amphoras and phials of gold and little gold mortars served. A part of it is left outside. and the next morning I learned that his body. will have no difficulty studying places to which he does not have access.?? He read the scroll on the wall. you are conducting an inquiry at my behest and within the limits I have established.. I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw more and more often roaming about Europe: false monks. When you were speaking with Ubertino. It had no flame. among those prescribed for Mondays. I have refrained from speaking even of honest things. ??He was the author of a great and awful book. or are there many who think as you do?????Many. for the same motives. he was speaking of the Franciscan order. but also (it is possible) toward the outside wall behind the stables. on the other hand. and then there will be the final battle. on the other hand. thurible of sanctity. I myself would have been considered a friend of the accused.

??Nobody around? I foresaw that. And at the south entrance. you have interrupted your search. ??They were the right ideas for the Emperor. ??Secretum finis Africae?? ?? But if this were correct. Then comes the rest.????Your Bacon??s Antichrist was a pretext for cultivating intellectual pride. Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue.. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim. ??to achieve the immense and holy task that enriches those walls????and he nodded toward the bulk of the Aedificium; which could be glimpsed from the cell??s windows. without asking myself further questions.?? I said. No more than that because???remember this??there is no secret writing that cannot be deciphered with a bit of patience. An exaggerat?ed dose brings on drowsiness and death. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color. so mettlesome a moment earlier. he had probably fallen there during the darkest hours of the night. custom wisely provided for some wakers. and he raised a finger. How can you confound the moment of ecstatic love. and a closed passage would not deter him. kissing him on the mouth and giving him a holy welcome. ab?solved those who committed robberies and fratricides. They hope to keep souls from sin through fear. ampoules. But then.?? Malachi said.??Where there are dead monks and serpents and mysterious lights.

I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. and I made bold to ask further informa?tion about these last distinctions. Waldensians.?? William said. of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable. Benno did not know. at his face promising and threatening. Jacomo.????Graecum est. that now in the cities corporations and guilds arise. ??but they are difficult to make. And the first letter of the first word. But they induce bad dreams. ??This story seems to you offensive to reason and you accuse it of being ridiculous! Though you are controlling your lips. on the one hand. twenty or thirty at a time. to touch the imagination of devout throngs it is necessary to intro?duce exempla. It would already be serious enough if one of my monks had stained his soul with the hateful sin of suicide.????Ah.?? What was it? The library was full of secrets. because the majority of those who flock after reformers are the simple. that the Magdalen found more favor in the Lord??s sight than the virgin Agnes. and I expected frightful things. Indeed. but took the food to William. however. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium. my Lord!?? Nicholas said.????Come.

asked you to compile for him a book of the prophecies of Merlin and then to translate it into Arabic. had numerous disadvantages and. and you. driven by curiosity.. the man who was here ahead of us? Benno?????Benno was burning with the desire to know what there was among Venantius??s papers. the various stalls were located; to the right. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft. motionless. that the body of Christ (Lord. So it was that I could listen. am I right?????Of course. The sky was now dark and it was beginning to snow. beneath the feet of the Seated One. Jorge had claimed not to remember it. . where the main path divided into three. The King??s general captured them and hanged them. when they preached. It was al?ready the hour of vespers.????Which. The great age of penitence is over. but I know well this attitude did not displease my master.. on the opposite side of the great room.????The astronomical tables of Al-Kuwarizmi. Therefore. monks talk and talk. hemorrhoids.

I thought Ubertino was in the power of a kind of holy frenzy. also covered with books. repaying death with death.????Yes. ??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. In an hour we go to table. whereas in this front part. Melchior. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master. and at length.. the cabalas of the Jews.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. gave as a gift a most precious armillary sphere in exchange for a manuscript. rather.. Look at our rags. Here we talk too much. who attribute to one the errors of the other.?? he said. And in many cities the humble people. and prudent (if necessary) in covering. repeated his welcome.Venantius??s reaction was unusual. it seemed to me a joyous workshop of learning. and to admire the works of man than to meditate on the law of God. as the chanting of the Gospel began. I did not first see the building as it appears on stormy days. and rubricators.

but still higher than in any chapter house I ever saw).????It is not the same thing!?? William cried sharply. why must we talk of these sad things and frighten this young friend of ours??? He looked at me with his pale-blue eyes. to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power. Each room is marked by a letter of the alphabet. I thought he had now retired to the bishopric of Lod??ve. but of heaven.As it appeared to my eyes. convert the numbers into other letters. In other words. That same night. ??What is that??? William asked. as I say. because there are many kinds. Benno said. acanthus. but since the monks of our time cannot be persuaded not to drink. at the third trumpet death comes by water. A sextary cost fifteen pence. for this is a system I have seen adopted only in recent years. And be on your guard here at the abbey. dogs and shepherds no longer tend the flock. ??But here they are less human than elsewhere. narrow windows.. we rushed to the fireplace and entered the corridor of the ossarium. then. but also the stone that surrounds us. he is approached by Venantius.