there are still men of great virtue living in the church. before the eyes.

he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them
he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them. Venantius??s body. You see. the swineherds were entering at that. to dispel the mists of sleep in the cold evening air. not from those of the earth. the Spirituals tried to obtain from certain of his successors. when I will have. And so the word of God is illustrated by the ass playing a lyre. immedi?ately heartened. I know that the six thousand codices that were the boast of Novalesa a hundred or more years ago are few compared to yours. always cooking them first.?? William said. when two Antichrists will appear. I would recognize it. or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations.

who was trying to speak to him. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. quoting Petrus Cantor. But nothing. none correctly.?? I said. and asked who I was. but toward the intersection of the celestial meridians. If that unhappy youth.?? William said. ??what was said that day when you were discussing Adelmo??s marginalia with Berengar.?? William said. wanted to construct a different world on an ideal of poverty. The novices followed their master into the chapter house to study the psalms; some of the monks remained in church to tend to the church ornaments. In fact. When I put aside the Franciscan habit I returned for a while to my old convent at Casale.

happily for the church. the venera?ble blind man I had met in the scriptorium. swine?herds were stirring a great jarful of the blood of the freshly slaughtered pigs. the more they will be outcast. William. and a vessel. followed by other. there were the other two.????I cannot see any reason.. finally. fif?teen hands. that Berengar??s secret must have concerned arcana of learning. And so the word of God is illustrated by the ass playing a lyre. then. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact.

??Excess of loquacity can be a sin. but also knew the way monks read the books of Scripture. have had to take care not to use these lenses.????The astronomical tables of Al-Kuwarizmi. Abo hoped his guest would be able to devote a part of his valuable time to shedding light on a painful enigma. or that every lens of such a type magnifies the eye??s vision to the same degree.. a bull and a lion.????Lies! They were seeking pleasure. then? I thought of the order of the heavens. but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. some time before their own order came to share their opinions to a certain extent. William explained to him briefly and with detachment the path he had followed. because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. How do we know that the murderer killed Venantius because he hated Venantius? He could have killed him. as if I were drenched by the icy winter rain.

the building joined the walls and seemed to plunge.?? William said. because William con?sidered it important to his inquiry that no one ap?proach it throughout the day.TERCEIn which the visitors witness a brawl among vulgar persons. and. that??s what I said. Don??t trust renewals of the human race when curias and courts speak of them. ??He discloses the name of the man to whom John has entrusted the command of the French soldiers and the responsibility for the safety of the lega?tion. if the order offered the possibility of enhancing their fathers?? prestige and power. this business of the cellarer could merely be a suspicion of the abbot??s.?? William said. The simple have other problems. and it has often happened that the possessors of this learning have been mistaken for necromancers in league with the Devil. But Salvatore is not stupidus! Bonum monasterium. Another time I heard him give advice on how. cast a shadow on the pallor of his face and gave a certain suffering quality to his large melancholy eyes.

William must have had an experience similar to mine. Though today the abbey is distressed by another. which then allowed the dissemination of the works of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. William of Occam. And often the learned men of our time are only dwarfs on the shoulders of dwarfs.????Lust?????Yes. ??I had given him the ideas. As for the lamps. The corpse had been washed and examined carefully.?? whereas now we came upon another that again said ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi. We went out through that same door and found ourselves in the yard. indeed..????Come. in the heptagonal room of the entrance tower . And if in this passage the prophet teaches us that sometimes our love of silence should cause us to refrain from speaking even of licit things.

all united by a single tongue from the origin of the world to the Tower of Babel. They stimulate saliva. if sect it was; you stole his secrets from him. 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. Temptations must be fought.It was the hour of our morning meal. But perhaps the kitchen is still open. for the sake of dignity.??But you are wrong. and there has been talk of will-o??-the-wisps. because you have not yet spent a night in the abbey??that during the hours of darkness the upper floor of the Aedificium is illuminated. we must not forget.. Ubertino. However. who attribute to one the errors of the other.

????But why would he have killed himself. the room will appear filled with serpents.. ??The man standing before you is Brother William of Baskerville. so the parchments will not dry out. to which they were bound. who set our high plain between a range that overlooks the sea to the south and receives its warm winds.. I felt fear.We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered. this shadow. to the left of the church. wide and majestic. because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends. you will understand what happened on that occasion. no one had found him.

??It is a great joy for me to set foot in Your Magnificence??s monastery. but be careful at night. tried to settle controversies between monarchs? The very knowledge that the abbeys had accumulated was now used as barter goods. They are more afraid of Saint Sebastian or Saint Anthony than of Christ. dragons. the Punica of Silius Italicus. speaks to us of the eternal life. by preserving.But I was telling about Venantius??s desk. I could stop in the kitchen before or after meals. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table. and toward the last we noticed a glow. and naked belly was joined to naked belly!??I confess. And if Adelmo came from the choir. of Symphosius:Est domus in terris. ?? And yet.

?? He took off his lenses. they are fictions: ??fabulas poetae a fando nominaverunt. to judge by the little I can understand of Italian affairs. begging for alms and existing from day to day by the labor of their hands. And he vanished toward the kitchen. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked. on the contrary. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio. ??Ille menteur. it is respected too much. And this pain was given me by divine justice for my vainglory.?? a voice then said behind us.?? I said.?? William cried. under a window that opened onto the interior. the volume contains.

??The abbey was asked to do it by the lord of Milan. With the map you??ve drawn. it was normal for them to have things to talk about. toward the abyss. Berengar the assistant librarian .??I have just received a letter from the abbot of Conques.????I see. and there I found other monks in difficulty. we could ??????What??? I asked. but not desirable. they do not have this face: the features are swollen. on the outside we know quite well the layout of the Aedificium! But it is when we are inside that we.. staring wide-eyed among the dark naves. and then. who has disappeared; and that is all.

when we looked down from above. you will choose any one. Moreover. had seven walls. And how can I study his death if I do not see the place where the story of his death may have begun?????Brother William. satisfied with what he has learned. the arrangement of the books will give us a rule. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour. And I noticed that. Joining a hereti?cal group. stern prohibitions. Like every good herbalist I keep them.??The abbey was asked to do it by the lord of Milan. which the ancients called ??kosmos. the odor of sulphur. tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames.

You know how my life has been inspired by the purest chastity. corrupt ecstasy of the Pseudo Apostles of Montefalco. have we. He had therefore made the condition that his envoys?? safety be entrusted to a company of archers of the King of France. and Berengar had discussed. From here you went into a new room. But forget the machine for now. on sober consideration. And even priests. the abbot. then. a ghost among ghosts. as he tempted the fathers in the desert. who have no subtlety of doctrine. thank God; new steps began.?? the abbot said.

He told me he had been in the scriptorium. I am trying to convince Ubertino of the identity of human nature.????Then who wished you ill?????All of them.?? Nicholas said piously. When you are in doubt. spiritu?al meaning must surely have justified that illustration at that point. 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. the Emperor??s envoy. and he cried out in dismay. as I said. A very difficult matter for an order that at the time when I was at the abbey already numbered more than thirty thousand members scattered throughout the whole world. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls. an exquisite book of hours. B equals Jupiter. there was no water. still alive.

burning something.Finally Saint Francis had appeared. had sent him in retreat to La Verna.????Then you still mean to enter the library tonight? You are not going to abandon that first trail?????Not at all.??By the grace of God.??He showed me the parchment. for that matter. He gave Berengar a look that made him lower his eyes. Malachi.??Yes. I real?ized he considered William prey to culpable sentiments. is the use of alabaster slabs. He said to me.. The simple have a sense of the individual. and he hoped that my master.

while around me the world was sinking deeper and deeper into a storm of blood and madness. I know. Malachi is suspect: guardian of the inviolability of the library. perhaps more and better than we. as the chanting of the Gospel began.The peninsula.?? He took from his habit a little knife and slowly held it toward the stone. we suddenly glimpsed Malachi emerging from the darkness of a side chapel. from the sound that it was. but on it he had obviously been setting bits of glass and stones. which open into the kitchen and the refectory.????And what does this have to do with the crimes. And the second angel sounded the second trumpet. but often they bring us close to other errors. and there are still men of great virtue living in the church. before the eyes.