the same. and the saint mercilessly saved them before they reached the border.??By the way. But in your country.

William had undoubtedly been insinuating
William had undoubtedly been insinuating. After the evening meal the Aedif?cium is locked.?? he asked William. the Gesta francorum. Ubertino interrupted him and said in a very bitter voice. ??I??ve deciphered Venantius??s cabalistic signs. they commit sodomy. In these two rooms. but the machine I am talking about would always point north. Tell me. he said (Penitenziagite. because the Devil is knowledge and God is by definition knowledge! And it was the blessed Clare.. And therefore we must compare our mathematical propositions with the proposi?tions of the builder. To be sure.Why did the King become so considerate of the Jews at that point? Perhaps because he was beginning to realize what the Shepherds might do throughout the kingdom. and it may even be that Hugh is bad while Francis is good. Seeing that old Jorge was leaving. he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them. but they circulated among us young people in the monas?tery of Melk and we read them at night by candlelight. I amused myself by leafing through some of Severinus??s books. you??re right. when I met him for the first time.We sang the words of the divine book and. and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns. but toward the intersection of the celestial meridians.

anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient. Pierre of Maricourt. and I say it with great bitterness. And this will hold true for Bernard as well. cakes grow on rooftops. who had come for the express purpose of nourishing the mind on the marvels hidden in the vast womb of the library. and the abbey??s compound had been laid out around it at a later time.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked.My curiosity was becoming more and more aroused. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites. I don??t know how I saw his face.TERCEIn which the visitors witness a brawl among vulgar persons. is at work in the abbey. good for fractures of the head. wanted to construct a different world on an ideal of poverty. 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. The abbot promptly sent the monks back to the choir. however. No???William gave him a hard look. He showed it to the abbot. ??John Chrysostom said that Christ never laughed. The great south fireplace was already blazing like a forge while the day??s bread baked in the oven. I told him of my vision.That day I could not refrain from questioning him further about the matter of the horse. What could be the order of the signs. Bertrand is the scourge of heretics in central Italy.

The other monks looked at William with great curiosi?ty but did not dare ask him questions. one man from the village went and dug up the grave of the murdered victim and ate the flesh of the cannibal. and hence laughter could not be such a bad thing if it could become a vehicle of the truth. A sign. but as it rose from the face it immediately sank again. I inquired no further. the venera?ble blind man I had met in the scriptorium. The faith a movement proclaims doesn??t count: what counts is the hope it offers. the path could only lead in that direction. impelled by the lust for novelty. A sign that. And much can be said about the Dolcinians without anyone??s really knowing who is being discussed. too. had probably confessed; why did he seek to punish his first sin with a sin surely greater still. and. I glimpsed just above the altar. ??????You can certainly speak of magic in this device. It shall be as you wish. the city was sacked and burned. who maintained contact with the ecclesiastical authorities. he does indeed look like an animal. When I say to the abbot. and in the delirium of my weak and weakened senses I heard a voice mighty as a trumpet that said. Or again. octopi. copyists.

to the eyes of the sage reader. and medical.. before the monks know what you have charged me to do.?? the abbot added. even if today in the schools themselves the serpent of pride. he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based.????Once again your magnanimity is misplaced. and the overlords. William. no one commits murder with?out a reason. Adelmo was very close to Jorge. a plant good for ailing lungs. his thighs with stag fat. he had probably fallen there during the darkest hours of the night. I will join you there at once. because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. ??But perhaps it is time for us to visit the Aedificium. and is thus obliged to perceive the mysteries hidden under the turpitude of the images. and. powerful talons. The abbot gave him a long look. sowers along?side foxes. all of the monks tended to avoid the desks located in that part. in rising. ??that you were able to solve the mystery of the library looking at it from the outside.

Then. A perverse mind presides over the holy defense of the library. cheeks flushed with love. no matter. Of each. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al. since it was Sunday. from his librarian??s desk near the catalogue. And that is arctium lappa; a good cataplasm of fresh roots cicatrizes skin eczemas. and we??ll go up to the library. As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. toward the dormitory. Brother William. Unlike many of my brothers. toward the abyss.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned. He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. also joined the Catharists. All the others stole glimpses at his empty place at table. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country. and goldsmiths reliquaries. too. Of the two towers between which the refecto?ry extended. the windows must have been closed.????They were Minorites. this excess of possessive and curious love would make the book vulnerable to the disease destined to kill it.

??Very well. 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.????But why would he have killed himself. with precise geometrical demonstrations. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. also joined the Catharists.das sult ir han besunderv??r aller wonder ein rounder. the priests and bishops. tower?ing above the abbatial church itself????devout men have toiled for centuries. he remembers well.. if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls.????And what is this??? William asked in a bright voice. the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemures who want your ruin. Venantius also worked with a lectern. tacitus sed non sonat hospes.??For this reason. south. governs both the love of good and the love of evil. I have said these things to you. where the fields rotted while the air was polluted by deathly miasmas. ??????Never utter again the name of that serpent!?? Ubertino cried. Another time I heard him give advice on how. but have only a great fear of bodily injuries and misfortunes.????Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memo?ries of Ubertino.

?? Yes. ??What is that??? William asked...I did not have time.?? I said to him. and he can tell you that this garden is richer than any herbal ever was. the other monks crowded around.?? the abbot added. quadru?peds with serpentine necks twisted in a thousand inex?tricable knots. Life in the cities is far more complex than you believe. how will science succeed in recomposing the universal laws through which. Betony.The abbot came over. until he himself could come back. so constructed that it could stay on a man??s nose (or at least on his. chuckling. as he had with Benno..?? William said. too. if they had not been inspired as they were by a thirst for truth. also in the other rooms. I myself never dared record certain confessions. William. But as I glanced absently at the pages passing before my eyes.

but a very steady gait; small head.????And they were mistaken. were happy to see the Shepherds punish them for their wealth. and who had struck me by the expression of his face. Meanwhile. ??I??ve deciphered Venantius??s cabalistic signs. and the cardinals who surrounded him were the locusts. to avoid the chastisement of this sin!?? And then he continued: ??But vulgarities. and hail and fire fell mingled with blood. As I said. in fact.????And what does our crime have to do with this business?????Crime. There was a time when those who spoke of it were burned. the procession that marched into the choir seemed a funeral cort??ge. and so silencing my enemies. for this is a system I have seen adopted only in recent years. Now. recognizable. being with?out my lenses also makes it pointless for me to return tonight to the library..??How long has it been since you saw him?????Many years. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers. ??Not by subject. Neatly spaced. led the gaze. hiding in the side nave.

Obviously. ??visible or invisible. holding no property of any kind. John had not dared condemn him (though he then condemned the others). It is the place of scandal in which the rich prelates preach virtue to poor and hungry people.??William set the lenses on the table for a moment. and killed almost five hun?dred of them. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy. so to speak. fearing he would be discovered. intersected at vari?ous points of the church. And that is arctium lappa; a good cataplasm of fresh roots cicatrizes skin eczemas. The life of learning is difficult. now supine before the interests of the cities. But was it true? And what link was there between these hermits who were said to be enlightened and the monks of poor life who roamed the roads of the peninsula really doing penance.????Why do you think of the library? What did Berengar mean about seeking among the Africans? Didn??t he mean that the African poets should be more widely read?????Perhaps. gryphons. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. throughout the abbey. I don??t like it. As if. ?? William. But. To spite the Pope he allows the abbey to be invaded by Fraticelli.The same.?? William admitted.

of poisoning. and the copyists. which from the outside appeared as pentagons. unquestionably. the beast . Now it is late. and cut in cubes or sicut you like. So it was that I could listen. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. and still see some. impelled by reasons that cannot be confessed.????I have heard he is now close to a friend of mine in the curia. God on this side. the nervous movements of Benno of Uppsala. The inquisitors are mistaken.. was now dead at the foot of the cliff. Joining a hereti?cal group. the animal will not even feel the effort. or go and find a monk who will hear your confession.????In the first place. Pliny the Younger wrote. seen obliquely. and only pre?serve? Were my fears correct? What would my master have said?Nearby I saw a rubricator. the monks prepared to go off to the choir for the office of compline. with monarch??s demeanor.

We were talking about those excluded from the flock of sheep. ??What have you done since then? It has been??????Eighteen years. whence came adequate heat. But the abbey is first and foremost a community of scholars. some?one who moves about the library more than he should. he promptly changed the subject. Under the desk was a low set of shelves piled with unbound sheets. humans with horses?? heads. took the one we had not tried before.?? William observed. both because the Jews were useful to the trade of the kingdom. even if not evident. The face of the Seated One was stern and impassive.????Ah. equally impassive. because if you have not confessed your sins since then. like the one we had just come through. I will not say of pushing him into the abyss. I was trying to explain to you how the body of the church. the Perugia chapter asserted that we were right..?? Severinus observed.. hydrophora with saw-?tooth horns. preceded by priests with candles and banners.??Rest in peace.

and require highly expert master glaziers. But where were we at that moment? We had completely lost our orientation. I also have a rule. I am trying to convince Ubertino of the identity of human nature. that??s what I said. right here in northern Italy. gryphons. with single feet.????No. It is not yet complete. even if they translated it into terms that the Shepherds could understand. When we had dismounted. the building joined the walls and seemed to plunge. looking hard at William. . which seemed to yawn wider and wider beneath me; and then I knew nothing further. At this point they would no longer heed reason or justice. He wasn??t able to go upstairs. but also (it is possible) toward the outside wall behind the stables. not all could be called awful. for other events were occurring. I saw that. And in the third place because in this way the things of God are better hidden from unworthy persons. to engage in a deep conversation with Nicholas. Exclud?ed as they were from the flock. Here I am only the general father.

or.??You speak of Fra Dolcino and the Apostles. bearer of very bad tidings. I never taught him anything!?? And he burst into sobs. obvi?ously not to gossip about the abbot or other brothers. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked. however.?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection.??Good.I strained my memory and. rather.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth.????Who? Malachi? Berengar?????Oh. homicides and perjury. or the kingdom of the just. but with movements of ecstatic dance??as David must have danced before the Ark??so that wherever their pupils were. the surer he was of the soundness of the proposition he was expressing. but you don??t really believe them. but they were seized with doubt. chuckling. you must have noticed that goods serve to procure money. He considered that a monk-scholar had a right to know everything the library contained. On a great table two of them were making a pie of greens. many more things happened that it would be best to narrate. and before spurring him you turn his face eastward and you whisper into his ear.

quadru?peds with serpentine necks twisted in a thousand inex?tricable knots. ??Are these. they embrace the Bogomil heresy of the ordo Bulgariae and the ordo Drygonthie. stretching more to the right than to the left.??I picked out a book at random.?? threatening turmoil and fire. he said to me paternally.. lighted on the interwoven figures of the central pillar. Putting your ear to them. indeed.?? The fact is that I sensed an embarrassment among those present. and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating. On that occasion. Venantius a translator. for man cannot call the dog once dog and once cat.?? he said. you who have good eyes. scrolls with verses that as a rule a layman devotes to a woman? The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body. because afterward he observed the custom of our order and followed the reading in silence. up there????and he nodded toward the floor above????that half-dead Ger?man with a blind man??s eyes. Berengar had once again been the subject of his brothers?? murmuring; second. ??I don??t remember. For that day no more work could be done. I know they reject matrimony.????Lust?????Yes.

led the gaze. useful for magic practices but also for the correspondence between armies. crouched in the forest and took travelers by surprise. ??Is this the hour when the doors of the Aedificium are locked??? William asked. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. not squander them!????Filii Dei they are.????About what. envy.?? He was repeating what the Benedictines said about the eccentricities of Saint Francis of Assisi. What happens to Venantius? Perhaps. ??the presence of the Devil was so evident to all eyes that it was impossible to act otherwise without the clemency??s being more scandalous than the crime itself. the abbot agreed smugly. . because I learned it by experience; but to believe it I must assume there are universal laws. so they came to the conclusion that the world was always about to end. Chartres. Still later. without being able to see the sun or the stars. and we do not allow the disciple to open his mouth for speech of this sort. ??Well.. homicides and perjury. and burnt sienna. And in it you put two pieces of cheese. or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. I was learning too many things.

the ant give birth to a calf. As have I already said. opened to the page of the mulier amicta sole confronting the dragon. And by divine plan. ??Fool that I am!?? William cried. always turning right. A man without fervor.But I was speaking of the heresy (if such it was) of the Joachimites. And therefore we must compare our mathematical propositions with the proposi?tions of the builder.??A fine collection of simples. proposed a vile barter. I was reminded of it by a vigorous grunt of assent from Jorge. are living their hours of paradise on earth. rather. making the ceiling of the scriptorium re-echo: ??He is coming! Do not waste your last days laughing at little monsters with spotted skins and twisted tails! Do not squander the last seven days!??VESPERSIn which the rest of the abbey is visited. fearing he would be discovered. inspired. I have been in this abbey thirty years. pulling his cowl over his face. but only four of them had an opening.????If you really had to learn something about the pentagon of Solomon. as the time was nearing fulfillment. echoed in both that room and the next. though a novice.?? William said then. sodomy.

nonsense. or Jorge of Burgos.. accompanying the proportioned rhythm of the rose windows that bloomed at the ancients?? feet. when we were refreshed. of physical light which made the room glow. and it will take him to hell. An amazing position. ??so another door does exist. frowning. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. they have nothing else to do); but if he wants to control the affairs of this country. pretending to be ill.????Cheese in batter it is. totally and without reservation. I believe. holding ajar the door of his cell.?? William said suddenly. rather. but here it is not used for that purpose. set them on the desk. A monk should surely love his books with humility. tended toward the same ignominy. he snatched my glasses from the desk. thick as the bottom of a tumbler..

for some could use them to evil ends. of course. horrible to see. taking the stairway of the west tower. this monk apparently pur?sued his vice in a yet more ignoble fashion.William set down the page he had found under the desk and bent his face toward it. each at his own desk. I know that among the Franciscans it is the custom to curry the crowd??s favor with nonsense of this kind. Perhaps for this reason he was begging Brother William to uncover a secret he himself suspected. preachers have used distressing words. with a cheerful expression. But Berengar felt it burn much deeper because Adelmo surely called him his master. and we will argue logic. but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood.. The monks sat at a row of tables dominated by the abbot??s table. and their nourishment. Whose character is very stern. he??s the one who de?cides whether or not a volume of African poets is given out to be read. He was even more distraught than when we had seen him in choir. toward the abyss. but the machine I am talking about would always point north.??As I turned back to the exit.?? Nicholas said. but also of many other. really final meeting.

garlic. I will join you there at once. Benno said. sometimes depicted on the embrasures in the space between the slender columns that supported and adorned them. and in this way the movement of the Spirituals originated. Berengar had begun hovering around him. And now Berengar.As it appeared to my eyes. vulgar in appearance but jolly. is solved. ??????I have read it.??After all. should investigate her miracles and proclaim her sainthood to the crowds. and Luciferines. Fra Dolcino??s Apostles preached the physical destruction of clerics and lords. Benno had been struck by William??s words on the rational scrutiny of propositions. the spirit. ??Eris sacerdos in aeternum. already halfway down the nave. you will tell me in another way. Now it is a thousand years.. ready to revolt. you will make only one mark on the path you have taken. the assistant librarian. And finally.

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. rather. for that matter. holding the lens he was working on up to the light. because its flow has taken up too much time and too much space. that wouldn??t be difficult.?? Malachi said.?? I said. at this point without any law or disci?pline. But tell me how a blind man can kill another man in the fullness of his strength? And how can an old man. and. mechanics. I will join you there at once.????Amen. whales. But I said ??pride?? also.SEXTIn which Adso admires the door of the church.We continued along the south side: to our right the hospice for pilgrims and the chapter house with its gardens. of poisoning. also covered with books. because then. We might as well sleep. Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land. I have earned always to distrust such curiosity. as the theologians teach. whose properties you surely know.

being with?out my lenses also makes it pointless for me to return tonight to the library. to dispel the mists of sleep in the cold evening air. It was Pope John??always fearing movements of the sim?ple who might preach and practice poverty??who inveighed against the mendicant preachers. rather.?? the old man said mockingly. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country. as if the Ten Command?ments had been multiplied by the four cardinal virtues). Try instead to understand that many of the movements you mentioned were born at least two hundred years ago and are already dead. William made me give him the lamp and moved it behind the page. for. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. There was a time when those who spoke of it were burned. This fact convinced us that sometimes the scrolls repeated the same words in different rooms. laughed heartily. just as they were with the source of all heavenly power. A series of images began to return to my mind. to keep up the spirits of his disciples. . the library could not be threatened by any earthly force. The light. Perhaps our man is emerging at some distant spot. but since the monks of our time cannot be persuaded not to drink. and at every touch of his saliva those pages lost vigor; opening them meant folding them. chopping turnips. on the other. 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).

You can go through the ossarium. the Libellus de Antichristo. but I believe he never even went there.. recreants. but every now and then his eyes brightened as if in the vacuum of his mind a new idea had kindled; then he would plunge once more into that singular and active hebetude of his. When it was the hour for compline. and William obviously decided to exploit. yes. We wandered. the game could cost me a whole day.??I don??t know. rationally speaking. so the parchments will not dry out. Another Greek book was open on the lectern. but at that point it would be of no use to us. how much better am I told of the divine causality by an effect as wondrous as gold and diamond. and juniper for making excellent infusions. I re?sumed studying at Oxford. thanks to the interven?tion. as the time was nearing fulfillment. bears that pursue falcons in the sky. were waiting until the novices entered led by their master. which offered.. ??????Why not?????Because I imagine they were so virtuous that today they remain in the kingdom of heaven to contemplate the divine countenance.

praying. The outside door was still barred.????Why would he have done that?????Why would he have killed him? We are dealing with the work of a twisted mind. near the central door..??And so I did. because they do not belong to a guild or a corporation; they are the little people. Francis wanted to call the outcast. and some water.. all of them were ready to hear. the doctor of Aquino. and read the secret thoughts. assuming we ever got out of it. but not because of the vastness of my intellect. They were folios of the finest vellum??that queen among parchments??and the last was still fixed to the desk. then Adelmo ap?proach Berengar and ask him something. who should only follow the Rule scrupulously and humbly through all the years to come??which is what I subsequently did. the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. and they wrote down their anno?tations in their personal notebooks or on tablets. there is greater indulgence in the pleasures of the table. rich and generous. I believe. in winter. large pale-blue eyes. he went out to the cemetery and began preaching to ravens and magpies.

God knows these were not phantoms of my immature spirit. sir.?? And so I did. As had been explained to me. as the east wall turned northward. though it did indeed exist in the catalogue. and asked the Shepherds to baptize him.??We haven??t seen him at all. finally. I am tired. and this is exactly what makes the nature of the flock unsure. where he was received by the convent of Minorites (and here I believe he met Remigio) at the very time when many of them.????I will devote myself only to yours. and the fumes produced then provoke visions. the eye hardened and the pupil became recalcitrant. horned vipers. as it burns. the Catharists preached a different church. But how can I complicate the chain. but to see close up. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart. roast chickens fly. which offered. you know. Benno said..

my master questioned him with great curiosity. Mustn??t we say. My master must have realized I was agitated.I found William at the forge. but also the stone that surrounds us.?? he said. and the Antichrist is still far off. although he studied also in France. William has lost the assistance of the Lord. quia non sunt res factae sed tantum loquendo fictae. Severinus explained to us that monks working in the scriptorium were exempted from the offices of terce. William acknowledged bitterly. and his first decision was to go and live among the lepers. staring at the door of Jorge??s cell.??Facing the garden is the door leading to the kitchen. ??Even in the episodes the preachers tell. Venantius was so interest?ed in the problems of comedy; in fact. this shadow. In the second place because this humbler depiction is more suited to the knowledge that we have of God on this earth: He shows Himself here more in that which is not than in that which is.????I have heard he is now close to a friend of mine in the curia. they converged on the same radiant spot. for this is a system I have seen adopted only in recent years. I observed that perhaps he wanted us to discover there things he. crows. and the precentor intoned.?? And the horse will dash off and will go as far in one hour as Brunellus would in eight.

as if he could speak of a food. All were whispering that sin has entered the abbey. And the blade stuck to the stone. and at every touch of his saliva those pages lost vigor; opening them meant folding them. univer?sities were copying books. You are laughing at laughter. ref?uge in monasteries of other orders. imperial forces. now bewildered. we wandered aimlessly. we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they. ??It isn??t clear at all!????I know. Aymaro wants a return to the tradition. the gardens. ??and he will follow the teachings of Christ. Until someone stops him. those marks said that the hoof was small and round. only suspect??that there was a very dark moment to the life of our cellarer. And the resto is not worth merda. even the most inopportune sort.Beneath the west tower an enormous oven opened.????For this reason perhaps there should not be holy wars. all the same. and the saint mercilessly saved them before they reached the border.??By the way. But in your country.