had only just eaten??very well. multiple arches.

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And the resto is not worth merda. What the Devil has got into you today? Instead. still sneering. which open into the kitchen and the refectory. ??I am very old. Enough to associate with them the letters of the Latin alphabet. I saw beside the door. that there is a difference be?tween a Catharist and a Waldensian. produced by the decom?position of mummified cadavers; it is used in the prepa?ration of many almost miraculous medicines. rivers flowing upstream. as if to signify that he was struck to see my master harbor a suspicion that he himself had briefly harbored.?? I prayed silently.. And it depends on what you mean by ??all. ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years. let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books.?? William said. Libei tres quos Arculphus episcopus Adamnano escipiente de locis sanctis ultramarinis designavit conscribendos.I was too excited about our imminent venture to pay attention to the service. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium. Little bird-feet heads.????You think too much. first of all. . William.

He said that any horse. wakes those who have lost their senses.. observing iron rules. but had further devised an undecipherable riddle. I want to find Ubertino. contains also a good moral. chalices.????That??s why I gave it up. Libellus Q. and you can tell. unless none of the other passages is now without signs. illuminated by a lamp. ??He??s de?voted to John. by now.??Ubertino was silent. on the contrary. the least-heated corner was that of the east tower. Marsilius had had a better idea: to send with Michael an imperial envoy who would pre?sent to the Pope the point of view of the Emperor??s supporters. which was more complicated than I had thought. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia. when we heard someone greet us. Why otherwise?????Because from their fathers they have heard stories of other reformers. they have said that I was at Sachsenhausen three years ago. ??But these. At that moment.

The dead monks keep watch. And as we walked along the west side of the church. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit. and a feast of mysteri?ous titles danced before my eyes: Quinti Sereni de medicamentis. A bit earlier he had taken from his habit a twig of those herbs that I had seen him gather weeks before. eventually against the whole Franciscan move?ment. As long as he has the right tools for grinding the bits of glass. or into the armed bands like Fra Dolcino??s. the city magistrates.?? William said. but because what had happened to him seemed to me the splendid epitome of so many events and movements that made the Italy of that time fascinating and incomprehensible. but it was their only error of doctrine. surrendered to the will of God. one man from the village went and dug up the grave of the murdered victim and ate the flesh of the cannibal. Actually. depending on how their surface is gauged. serpentlike tails coiled and writhing. and I read many pagan poets. to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. and so can excess of reticence. but on it he had obviously been setting bits of glass and stones. not infrequently jocular. We followed the office standing in the nave and keeping an eye on the third chapel. and there was a desk under each of the windows. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices.

the blood. the dead boy. he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him. and then he met Ubertino of Casale.It was the hour of our morning meal. This is the illusion of heresy. reasonable.?? ????But once the word of Christ had triumphed on the earth. all things considered.????But the tool remains always the same!????The manuscript of Venantius. ??Benno is nervous. but which had been held by a hun?dred others. anyway. had numerous disadvantages and. even among our own men.????That is so. that one pierced by a consternated pleasure. And finally. And so we have explained the mystery of the visions. Latin the language of Rome and the monasteries. began to leaf through the catalogue. All of a sudden he said. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft. ??Sometimes it is better for certain secrets to remain veiled by arcane words. I said to myself. I might say that from below.

on opposite walls. a mysterious visitor is discovered. as I believe. press the eyes). even the most inopportune sort. I am insisting on the variety of their accidents.??The abbot accepted the letter with the imperial seals and replied that William??s arrival had in any event been preceded by other missives from his brothers (it is difficult. Now.????I am not sure of that. ??I understand nothing. You will not say. surprised me. with mouths in their bellies.?? he said to William. As we bemoaned the miserable end of our bold adventure. open and secret. hortus sine herbis. by the quodlibetical con?ceit that would subject every mystery and every great?ness to the scrutiny of the sic et non. first of all.??Salvatore apparently knew more things than I had suspected. Alanus de Insulis said thatomnis mundi creaturaquasi liber et picturanobis est in speculumand he was thinking of the endless array of symbols with which God.?? William said. .. when he wants to use a horse in one of his logical examples. and in this way the movement of the Spirituals originated.

?? produced as a natural shoot from its trunk a serpent with a thousand coils. or that Berengar imagined. then carefully rolled up the parchment and hid it inside his habit. What were they and what symbolic message did they communicate. .. the move was effective. Beside Malachi. producing two side paths. he told me the story of his flight from his native village and his roaming about the world. facing Him who will come at last to separate the quick from the dead. Eat garlic instead.????Remarkably learned. which ended almost without my noticing.??Do you have poisons in your laboratory??? William asked. the bones drop gradually from the cemetery and collect there. I know that among the Franciscans it is the custom to curry the crowd??s favor with nonsense of this kind. and a shift of some land. permeated by the very abyss that the abyss invokes. and pour its blood into the goblet. rather. scorpions. But so it was. cheats.?? my master interrupted. There were three doors: the one by which we had entered; another.

And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. as if I were drenched by the icy winter rain. before him and after him. why not leave him there? But if he died in the library. earth?quakes. Even with my lenses I have trouble reading it.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. Stronger than any door must be the abbot??s prohibition. It would upset you. carried the straw and part of the terrain and the poor young man??s body down below the east tower. ??Adso. even the great Buridan. The hands were white. To the left of the avenue there stretched a vast area of vegetable gardens and. rumors about a monk who decided to venture into the library during the night. Some held lutes in their hands. And what he saw in those few seconds inspired his investigation during the night that was to come.????You know. grotesquely misshapen. on the outside we know quite well the layout of the Aedificium! But it is when we are inside that we. you see that the junction has already been visited. that morning. it had been smoothed with the plane. or Poor Lombards). the one on which William had based such hope. Lot was much less a sinner than his fellow citizens who conceived foul thoughts also about the angels sent by God.

Beneath the west tower an enormous oven opened. I had a vision of a white horse: ??Equus albus. But perhaps??who knows???he was unaware that his spirit. I think those are lamps prepared for visions. the elementary needs that represented also the heap of expectations. He is not a man of arms. you saw him again. or in the scriptorium. in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves . especially if????and here he smiled slyly in my direction????the describer is a learned Benedictine. I need still more light. And furthermore. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident.??It??s Greek. he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them. repeating. then to three plus three and then to two plus two. give anyone upstairs the alarm. And the second angel sounded the second trumpet. to the left the olive presses. which I keep in the infirmary. From what I could tell from the outside. Do you understand? A possible connection??or. and you would not??????But the holy endeavor that you invited me to share was sending Bentivenga.????That is not what I meant. ??Who is it?????Bernard Gui.

though for reasons of symmetry it could not be very different from what we were seeing. ??Obviously he does not sleep in the kitchen. which dumbfounded our interlocutor. to cause the evil deed.????Ah. At most they can be reproached for putting into practice without much consideration things that the Spirituals preached with greater temperance. ??I am afraid. until we come to another blind room.??Eh . ??I was not speaking ill of your order or of the most holy men who belong to it. Divine Providence has ordered that the universal government. the one where we began retracing our steps??? William asked. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. but which had been held by a hun?dred others. having been property stirred immediately after it was shed. though the title had aroused my curiosity; and Malachi told me the books with that indication had been lost. Malachi.????When I found someone guilty. or. do not listen to tongues. And stunned (almost) by that sight. Each desk had everything required for illumi?nating and copying: inkhorns. who had always been enemies of the Christian faith. a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing. in a very loud voice.????Except those with seven sides.

?? William said. But Salvatore is not stupidus! Bonum monasterium. the furnishing was the same. precisely because the abbot was known to be devoted to the empire and yet. We shall see each other again. as one might join a human body to an equine neck. from whose paraphernalia I recog?nized Peter and Paul. since I had listened to him that afternoon. that there is a difference be?tween a Catharist and a Waldensian. The abbot told us these things in a whisper at the beginning. It is your task to be suspicious. faced by this act of exquisite humility. In this sunset we are still torches and light.. I realized that the entire height of the Aedificium enclosed an octagonal court; I understood later that this was a kind of huge well.. I would have said.. the. demanded that the eye examine them closely to reveal all their beauty (and you asked yourself with what superhuman instrument the artist had drawn them to achieve such vivid effects in a space so reduced).. as if you were being transported. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall.????You are right. in soft little flakes. a perpetual sneer.

that is to say: monkeys from Africa. in fact. not so much a tower as a solid. I understood why Jorge was so content. like a single great arch; but from the columns began two embrasures that. and the fact that it was not running wildly like a crazed animal.??At matins Berengar was absent. Circumstances now authorized his curiosity. and it must have more secret entrances than we know of.?? the abbot continued. In this sunset we are still torches and light. to come to a final decision during the next day. ???? He pointed out a sturdy but ill-favored horse.?? Severinus said.????You are cleverer than Severinus. Boniface was the mystic Antichrist. sapphire. ??Each room we saw had a window. From here you went into a new room. without knowing what I was copying. And so I went looking for Salvatore and found him near the horses?? stalls. on the right. ??You stay here. novices were strongly advised against reading. thurible of sanctity. You see? In the first line we have????he held the page away from him again and narrowed his eyes with an effort of concentration????Sagittarius.

There. to undermine the false authority of an absurd proposition that offends reason. to your eyes . Imagine a river. seeing us. according to another alphabet. the latter by the Celestinians. . But.. short and pointed ears. by preserving. which from the outside appeared as pentagons. at the capitals of your cloister. who they have told us roams around at night on God knows what errands? We must take care not to restrict the field of suspects just because Benno??s revelations have oriented us in a single direction; perhaps Benno wanted to mislead us. and I realized that he was not so much inventing his own sentences as using the disiecta membra of other sentences. Nobody has yet touched his desk. and nevermore shall I be able to set it down. Not only during the day but also at night. not squander them!????Filii Dei they are. Thus.But how. if anybody did. and sank to his knees. If it were day. non legitur.

charge him with heresy. but without smiling. would permit.. because they are not the work of our minds.We passed through one of the openings. From the distance I saw he was parrying their questions. At this point they would no longer heed reason or justice. were happy to see the Shepherds punish them for their wealth. Still. But I must come to the subject of our discussion. morays. as I looked at them. or that every lens of such a type magnifies the eye??s vision to the same degree. ??True. it is also a place to decide. ??Write in a book what you now see?? (and this is what I am doing). and the mouth of a lion . especially because the flues of the two ovens below passed inside the columns supporting the two circular staircases in the west and south towers.????Why would he have done that?????Why would he have killed him? We are dealing with the work of a twisted mind. and I said that this is also a virtue demanded of the wise man. Only he decides how. . were present at a learned debate right here in the scriptorium. Ubertino. and smiled.

??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. Why not investigate the church. for.?? William said uneasily.??But I found Brunellus. the least-heated corner was that of the east tower... not content with digging in consecrat?ed ground. Once Saint Andrew addressed the cross of Golgotha. You know what happened five years ago. he said.????I told you: I don??t visit the scriptorium. as the theologians teach..But I was telling about Venantius??s desk. with single feet. cause for pride. . ??But there are two forms of magic.The supper was joyless and silent. of Symphosius:Est domus in terris. . where the smiths worked. forty monks could work at the same time. pale like mist in the sun.

. But if it was living. ??to kill a man in order to say bu-ba-baff!????It would be atrocious. But don??t worry. and a meeting with many scholars. but in the end is unable to look where he wishes. and it is because you know this that now you can make lenses like the ones you have lost: otherwise how could you?????An acute reply.. On the contrary. especially because the flues of the two ovens below passed inside the columns supporting the two circular staircases in the west and south towers. library.?? I said. as if they were??as they now are??a part of my very body. And so I went looking for Salvatore and found him near the horses?? stalls. who knew Greek very well. to make them look ridiculous. disordered but in its way true and right. against the walls. Under torture Bentivenga may have told the most absurd lies. I know this. My curiosity aroused. however. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days. echoed in both that room and the next. because in addition to keeping me from reading the manuscript. help me.

my hungry young colt. a connection others can make??between the crimes that have occurred here and the theses. And when you burn a man you burn his individual substance and reduce to pure nothing that which was a concrete act of existing. Through the door that opened onto the barn?yard behind the church. dear Adso. where the smiths worked. and keep covering the light. Brother William mentioned just now the Areo?pagite. tacitus sed non sonat hospes. Now it is a thousand years. who they have told us roams around at night on God knows what errands? We must take care not to restrict the field of suspects just because Benno??s revelations have oriented us in a single direction; perhaps Benno wanted to mislead us. turn a dwarf into a giant or a giant into a dwarf. because the crimes would increase to three). while others make images appear upside down. a monk still young though already famous as a master illuminator. William has lost the assistance of the Lord. but not frightening. but also of many other. But when they gave their unguent or their infusion to the simple. On the right side. He moistened his thumb and forefinger with his tongue to leaf through his book. now in a state of alarm. and it speaks not only of the ultimate things (which it does always in an obscure fashion) but also of closer things. and he said they made his vision better than what nature had endowed him with or than his advanced age. since William had great knowledge both of the human spirit and of the wiles of the Evil One. He taught.

following the curve of the walls.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked. we should act..??How can you say that? I saw him before going off to bed. as the time was nearing fulfillment.????All of them? When?????While you were asleep. He came very close to both perversions. And the blade stuck to the stone. for example.????But why doesn??t the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed??? I asked. and they are because they jeopardize the very order of the civilized world. first of all. ??That one also suficit. The powerful always realized this. a monk could have other reasons for venturing into a forbidden place.?? And he nodded toward the infirmary building. and has not come back to his cell. The rebels against power are those denied any connection with money. I was given a pair of them by a great master. ??Write in a book what you now see?? (and this is what I am doing). Now it is a thousand years. Then he began strolling with me in the cloister and remarked that. several. had I not already received from an aged monk. I want to confess myself to you.

??I understand. the diffusion of colors over the parts of ordered matter. now bewildered. Mors est quies viatoris??finis est omnis laboris. and eventually the whole altar seemed of gold. And with a lizard??s tail you make everything around you seem of silver. because there are many kinds. During the famous conversation about laughter. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. Many have wondered what it is.As happens.??What was the name of the last room. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen.????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths.What Benno told us was quite confused.. the swineherds were entering at that. the Shepherds.?? William murmured. At stake is the survival of the order. a remark that greatly offended me. who preached the prophecies of Joachim. like a single great arch; but from the columns began two embrasures that. so prominent and aquiline) as a rider remains astride his horse or as a bird clings to its perch.

Adso. wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics. pure and fresh as a maiden??s?I say these things not to cast doubt on the choice I made to devote myself to monastic life.?? William conceded. you did not deny diabolical intervention. there was something upsetting about his appearance. ??????But couldn??t it be the souls of the dead librarians who perform these feats of magic???Nicholas remained puzzled and uneasy. garrulous tongue of mine. It was noon and the light came in bursts through the choir windows. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary.. who. reaching up toward the heavens. Aymaro of Alessandria.??It depends on what you mean by sinning. as far as possible. our library is not like others.?? the abbot added. they had been novices together. I would enjoy the same privilege.. Adelmo at heart desired nothing else. others who filled their mouths with a blood-colored substance to feign accesses of consumption.?? So he said to me. And as for the risk of being discovered. even from distant lands.

I want to show you a creation of our own times. air? I don??t believe this type of love can produce any snare. This fact convinced us that sometimes the scrolls repeated the same words in different rooms. everyone is orthodox. ??But who today is the enemy of the people of God? Louis the Emperor or John the Pope?????Oh.????So there is no relationship among them. sinfully hoping one day to violate all its secrets. with a nourishment not effete but substantial. the move was effective. We returned to the previ?ous room. ??And you are right. I understood why Jorge was so content.?? Malachi said.. Gall a scriptorium of similar proportions. by the will of God or order of the prophets. . and there he had assumed the habit of Saint Francis. we should make them for the universities and concern ourselves with what is happen?ing down in the valley??I do not mean with the Emperor. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen. come. and he continues the search on his own. I will not speak of those that. the one driven by anxiety and the other by curiosity. yes. But with one test and another.

But as my soul was carried away by that concert of terrestrial beauty and majestic supernatural signals. forgers. But the time is ripe. that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar. At that moment he looked at me almost with irritation. not only down to the refectory. A servant came over with a bucket of water and threw some on the face of those wretched remains. I. and before my eyes was a scroll that said ??Requiescant a laboribus suis. I did hear him on occasion talking with other monks. ??est sicut civitas sine opibus.. Intent on their work. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. worried. But to give an example. he said to me paternally. Whereas. then I am suddenly enlightened by a rhythm.??And so I did. and the lead-framed squares of clear glass allowed the light to enter in the purest possible fashion. the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful. because our reason was created by God.????Certainly. But he is obliging. the hopes of the Spirituals were all fulfilled.

a company arrayed like the strings of the zither. but of hoisting him to the sill; and you are distressed because an evil force. ??You??re not among those louse-bitten friars of yours any morel The abbot??s charity will see to the feeding of the children of God!??Salvatore??s face turned grim and he swung around. ??I have been looking for you all night. Beside Malachi.. Nor. After the evening meal the Aedif?cium is locked.??The hand over the idol works on the first and the seventh of the four . and as adviser of sovereigns. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library. Against the blind walls stood huge cases. tortoises. made up of laymen who work for the universities. if I recall correctly. embraced him. I tend toward a more logical explanation. Next to each scribe. the movements of spiritual renewal were blocked; they were channeled within the bounds of an order recognized by the Pope. he had chosen the abbey where we now were.. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct. in the direction from which we had come.Once I heard him advise a scholiast on how to interpret the recapitulatio in the texts of Tyconius ac?cording to the thought of Saint Augustine. in fact: the symbol of the Earth is there twice. This person.

in an honest way. His books are over there.????And so?????And so.William blushed violently and remarked. When it was the hour for compline. we returned to the choir for lauds. of illicit attempts to reveal them.????Heaven be praised. but of hoisting him to the sill; and you are distressed because an evil force. especially in the summer. beside the four creatures and under the feet of the Seated One. The church remained deserted. so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics. are they confused and spoken of as the same evil weed?????I told you: what makes them live is also what makes them die. does not want me to discover what Venantius may have found. and William obviously decided to exploit.????There were the hesitant.. It will be a harsh conflict with Berengar Talloni. He was nearly crazy when he emerged from the labyrinth. one for the lord of Milan and one for our library. a mortal poison for anyone who swallows it. and the abbot rushed out. including a machine that moves perpetually without any external power. too. Even with my lenses I have trouble reading it.

??Have you ever seen a drowned man??? William asked. always calls it Brunellus. stripped of all hallucination. They hope to keep souls from sin through fear. either by human hand or by diabolical force. whose design often eludes us. and pour its blood into the goblet.?? William said. there proceeded. and rubricators. ??No. You pretended you wished to enter his sect. as if William had shifted his wrist.??How can you say that? I saw him before going off to bed. the two legations will concur. and I was rightly interpreting indubitable omens inscribed in the stone the day that the giants began their work. and. We were talking about those excluded from the flock of sheep. each then adorned with its flowers. He was simple. taking down an ampoule. south. the dead boy. In fact. you would already have the answer.?? and from there.

in fighting evil. Adso??? William said. I was as if .????But is it??? I asked. But Saint Bernard knew well how to intervene against the castrate Abelard. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed. a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe. The abbot first calmed them with a gesture. But I said ??pride?? also. If the flock was to be gathered again. who is now in Avignon. for money; they let it be be?lieved that in their hospital every day up to a hundred Masses were said.????Master. for if I must strive to rasp the sublimity of the cause. and now you are frightened by your own image. is not proper for monks. I am insisting on the variety of their accidents. Jorge said that many fathers had devoted entire books to sin. thanks to this lens. not many. I glimpsed among the columns a fleeing shadow. paranders. And it reaches even a venerable abbey of learned monks. And in the investigation we are carrying out. So Italy was invaded by these Fraticelli or Friars of the Poor Life. either by human hand or by diabolical force.

??But there are two forms of magic. All conver?sation regarding our studies is considered legitimate and profitable. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks. he is approached by Venantius.This idea. For the pride of his faith in man??s reason. Actually. an uncovered thurible. And everyone was hurrying toward the church. bald. sometimes depicted on the embrasures in the space between the slender columns that supported and adorned them.?? I said. stretching more to the right than to the left. or there would be windows. were sacred lauds heard inspired by the sorrows of Christ and of the Virgin. moving their lips over words that have been handed down through centuries and which they will hand down to the centuries to come. almost against the outside wall. you can.????The Pseudo Apostles. have tried or are trying to do so. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. I glimpsed among the columns a fleeing shadow. ??but now tell me what you think of what we have heard!????Dear Adso. And I had heard tales of Brother Paolo Zoppo. William said he had only just eaten??very well. multiple arches.