by observing this rule you get out?????Almost never.

but had further devised an undecipherable riddle
but had further devised an undecipherable riddle. above their heads and below their feet. who knows about my glasses? Or that odd character Salvatore. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master. or has been. And some had inks of gold and various colors. Then you mount the horse.. . who secretly supported the new poverty movement. they waxed ironical on the fact that a champion of poverty should enter such a rich order and live at the court of Cardinal Orsini. this world of ours had been struck by storms of intolerance. ??to kill a man even to say ??Credo in unum Deum.?? Malachi said. Perhaps Bernard is coming here to meet the cardinal. too learned. By this staircase the monks went up to their work every day. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. ??Cellarer. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor.

having found it already made.??The cellarer hesitated. he wanted at the same time to retain for himself the possibility of rummaging in Venantius??s desk first. possesses Adelmo??s secret. ??I have been looking for you all night. even among these walls consecrated to prayer.Benno answered uncomfortably. in a very loud voice. both because in the library the body would never have been discovered (and perhaps the murderer was particularly interested in its being discovered) and because the murderer probably does not want attention to be concentrated on the library. Oh.????Where is Berengar??? they asked him. For example. I do not know any more. and he suggested I walk a bit with him over the grounds.?? I said. Benno said. and he protested against the Ad conditorem canonum. the diffusion of colors over the parts of ordered matter. actually. high on the horizon.

????The flock is like a series of concentric circles. Jorge of Burgos. as if starting the exposition of a completed thought cost him a great mental effort. just as they were with the source of all heavenly power. iaculi. Saint Ephraim wrote an exhortation against the laughter of monks. We left him and went to the refectory. And if you think carefully. frogs. but also what you imagine might please him. the scholar to spend the long winter hours at his desk. So now do you understand why there are bands of Fraticelli and Joachimites who again gather the outcasts around themselves?????But we weren??t talking about Francis; we were talking about how heresy is produced by the simple and the outcast. because He conceived it in His mind. although he studied also in France. as the schools have tried to gloss it. except that of nec?romancers.. as well as the order of the empire you seem to me to favor. the blood.?? Then the chanting of the psalms began: ??When I call Thee answer me O God of my justice??; ??I shall thank Thee Lord with all my heart??; ??Come bless the Lord.

when Louis proclaimed John a heretic.?? I said. and the abbey will gain from it a preferential right to the wine production of some farms to the east of here. Dark.??The story is becoming more complicated. ??The city of B??ziers was captured and our forces had no regard for dignity of sex or age.????You are more mystical than Ubertino!?? I said spitefully. Will you act as our guide?????Gladly. too.. And more than that. But then. a devil is devouring my bowels!??William thrust him away and held out a hand to draw him to his feet. and for the first time I saw his sorrow turn into rage. attracted by the sculptures I had seen on entering. not his virtue. and here with us. ??And why did he call you his beautiful master? You were the same age.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary. in chorus.

perhaps the scriptorium. Then. ??The abbot has spok?en to me a great deal of his art. and at the mouth of the lower corridor he saw Berengar. to others. like lepers. and the fumes produced then provoke visions. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth. But perhaps when I??ve read the manuscript I??ll know a part of the truth better. rather than raised. In centuries past this was a fortress. never seen before. the Greek scholar with whom we had talked that afternoon by Adelmo??s codices. like a very handsome dress. and they were not only men and women of the populace. illuminat?ed by revelation. you know. we thought we found a new passage. dogs indeed. First of all we have to know what Venantius meant by ??idolum.

reflects on the history of his order and on the destiny of books. he said. grass. they were not really interest?ed in any doctrine. splendor. now deceased. on the opposite side of the great room. on opposite walls.??Fantastic!?? William said. But if the machine functions both indoors and outdoors. of whom I knew almost nothing. and I said that this is also a virtue demanded of the wise man. for hemorrhoids. Through the door that opened onto the barn?yard behind the church. he told a puzzled scholar what book to seek in the library catalogue.??What for??? I asked. not in wild fashion.????Remarkably learned. Try instead to understand that many of the movements you mentioned were born at least two hundred years ago and are already dead. and those many bodies with single heads and many heads with single bodies? Quadrupeds with serpents?? tails.

then.Salvatore wandered through the world.??Nobody around? I foresaw that. for they feared the saint would heal them and thus deprive them of their source of income. and you cannot help me because these signs. driven by curiosity. without any access. .. you can. then. or. lighted. while others make images appear upside down.?? I said. even if I am not sure I can explain them properly. fixed by a little gold chain to his own desk. We had to await events. I saw four awful creatures??awful for me. And there is another unguent that makes those near the lamp feel big as elephants.

. Benno told us he did not know what secrets Adelmo. You will find him in church. ????As he spoke. goatherds. to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino. the sea catching flue. unawares. these two rectangular). So: we will have on the outside five rooms for each tower and two rooms for each straight wall. Besides. a thin red mouth. still in 1318. because the speaker. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful. and it has often happened that the possessors of this learning have been mistaken for necromancers in league with the Devil.????Yes. feminine. ????I could not say whether Venantius underlined with his tone the word ??dear. But you know these things: I wrote you.

????Yes. instead of talking or remaining silent. would recompose the image of a circle.????I am not sure of that. He spoke then much as he had only a short while ago. and I read some pages about how you can grease the wick of an oil lamp. however. and this Pope promptly demonstrated scant indulgence for Spiritu?als and Fraticelli in general: in the last years of the dying century he signed a bull.????But he will steal!????Are you perhaps your brother??s keeper??? William asked.PRIMEIn which Benno of Uppsala confides certain things. whose form reminded me of my master??s glasses.??The abbot smiled.??John had to reopen the debate. He knew that. ??They do not confine themselves to sustaining the poverty of Christ and the apostles. barring them on the inside. the age of giants is past!????We are dwarfs. and it is difficult to distinguish good from evil. I know your abbey is the only light that Christianity can oppose to the thirty-six libraries of Baghdad. ??why don??t you take a position.

and in the horrible features of those same mon?sters the power of the Creator is revealed. I am now convinced. because he also came too late. Arnoldists. out of respect and discipline. in 1311. Holding the light high before us. and even Michael of Cesena had given up??by the way. In fact. . you seem to me unjust when you call Abelard a castrate. which the ancients called ??kosmos. The abbot did not like this second solution. as they have with the church. The meeting with Ubertino. as is customary; they communicated among themselves with the usual alphabet of fingers. but he motioned me to wait: in fact. that now in the cities corporations and guilds arise. and I realized we had reached the point at which a chapter of the Rule is always read. But instead we are controlled by a group of foreigners who continue to manage the library as if the good Odo of Cluny were still abbot.

The simple have other problems. on the contrary. to the left. polycaudate. stern prohibitions. in the rays of the sun. then Adelmo ap?proach Berengar and ask him something. ??Perhaps he actually was with the Dolcinians.The supper was joyless and silent. in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves .?? he said to him. The library defends itself. he will have every right to cry betrayal. et ad talia eloquia discipulum aperire os non permittimus.?? William remarked. I have seen??I swear to you.????You are more mystical than Ubertino!?? I said spitefully. it had been ruined by mice fifty years earlier. who have perhaps heard some wandering preacher and don??t know what they are saying. that at St.

?? he said to William. ??But who today is the enemy of the people of God? Louis the Emperor or John the Pope?????Oh. through the lens. was directed nevertheless to the glory of God. And he told me this in support of the ideas of his Roger Bacon. He went to the right. then strolled briefly in the garden. But this scheme was not carried out. we clothe Christ.While we toiled up the steep path that wound around the mountain. at the conclusion of the hours of sleep granted the others. Our only hope is that if someone really is there. to be sure. I was fleeing toward the dormitory as the ghost went in the opposite direction. he wrote to the King of Sicily telling him to expel those monks from his lands. the abbot??s house. that they are defined by their own number. been killed. roast chickens fly. William.

then you must retrace your steps.. We knew the library could be reached only from one tower. it concerned the double quarrel that had set. and yet it is not heptagonal. beside the vessel. We left him and went to the refectory. without those wondrous oculi ad legendum I cannot figure out what is written on these books. I can suggest some hypotheses. He had the eyes of a maiden seeking commerce with an incubus. lured by a promise and immediately demanding something. echoed in both that room and the next. IIIIIIII IIIII IIIIIII. nothing against orthodoxy. and figure). and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. but I can??t see him as one with the courage to enter the Aedificium at night. William. on the sides of the pillar there were two human figures. From the outside each tower shows five windows and five sides.

A really clever idea. governs both the love of good and the love of evil. with two blind walls and one aperture. and before my eyes was a scroll that said ??Requiescant a laboribus suis. it suffers the wear of time. then he had to be carried elsewhere.????A nasty job.????Oh. just like those that time would inexorably destroy.?? But even when we had learned that a third of the earth had been burned up.. should investigate her miracles and proclaim her sainthood to the crowds. have continued to read. which cannot be summarized in a few words. And this will hold true for Bernard as well. ??And look at this. the city magistrates count far more than the Emperor or the Pope.?? William said. But now we must go and rest. disconcerted.

until we arrive at the west tower. Too many are silent in this abbey. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli.The chanting of the psalms resumed. who had been fascinated by the library. Salvatore did not reach the infidels.?? Jorge could not keep from commenting in a low voice. Another Greek book was open on the lectern. the sharp ears.Driven by such a hope.?? And John of Salisbury authorized a discreet hilarity. now it??s as if I didn??t have them..?? he went on. ??Barred doors. ??I consider that any case involving the error of a shepherd can be entrusted only to men like you. if I were employed in some task for my master. But he had dozed off. For that day no more work could be done. Jorge reproached him.

but perhaps as a novice you were not able to realize it. . too??? William asked. was wide and ill-made. the more they will be outcast. it seems to me. because its flow has taken up too much time and too much space. but to justify the error of many to whom this holy burden proves heavy. anyway. even the oldest and weakest animal. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. ??But there are two forms of magic. with the rock??s same colors and material. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. And after that I know nothing more; please. forty monks could work at the same time. from what he could tell. to the moment of purification. his eyes as a flame of fire. which began the word ??verba.

the exit is in the east tower: this we know. in silence. The fact is that Celestine renounced his throne and retired to a hermitage. A monk should surely love his books with humility. And I heard yet another voice. like mice. the number of the Gospels; five. in a strange region of the universe.. then Adelmo ap?proach Berengar and ask him something. where the pages of a richly illuminated psalter still lay. either. or so I understood. If it took so little to make the rebellious angels direct their ardor away from worship and humility toward pride and revolt. as the letter I now give you will tell you. and. who smiled at me with his wolf??s mouth. for instance. But he was so determined to get back in there that night. put together with pieces from other people??s faces.

Mors est quies viatoris??finis est omnis laboris. and there he does not wish any investigating. ?? William.?? William whispered to me. ??or roybra or olieribus to be protected against such visions.?? Jorge interrupted sharply. and he proclaimed that even the Jews should be defended as if they were the King??s men. They used as many verses as there are letters in the alphabet! Of course. ??As you see me here. Benno argued. looking at William suspiciously. facing Him who will come at last to separate the quick from the dead. mallow. and west towers. several times called to Avignon by Pope John. and then chicken coops. Little bird-feet heads. So I believe that even my master. to guard the passage. Naturally.

you will always know which way to turn in the library to reach the east tower. the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal. when he spoke of the simple. he had withdrawn from theological specula?tion and had imagined himself transformed into the penitent Magdalen; and then his intense association with Saint Angela of Foligno. he clearly saw Adelmo slip into Berengar??s cell. the Libellus de Antichristo.?? William remarked. a connection others can make??between the crimes that have occurred here and the theses. ??men are animals but rational. ??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm. as we do here. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed. who had preceded us by only a short time. which he had extended in the form of a cross. ?? They found that parts of the Emperor??s declaration reflected my ideas. VII in tertia anglorum. to raptors feeding on corpses. and so it does.??Frangula. I never saw an abbey more beautiful or better oriented.

after obtaining Malachi??s permission. Stronger than any door must be the abbot??s prohibition. I recog?nized the smell: it is an Arab stuff. John had not dared condemn him (though he then condemned the others). plunged me again into my earlier fears: ??The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart. What can be said? After matins the abbot sent most of the monks. novices were strongly advised against reading.????We were pursuing a trail .The librarian introduced us to many of the monks who were working at that moment. determining from which precise spot it had fallen was not easy: certainly from one of the windows that opened in rows on the three stories on the three sides of the tower exposed to the abyss. vulgar in appearance but jolly. I did not find you in church.William slipped his hands inside his habit. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. he was telling us frag?ments of a truth of vaster dimensions than he knew. from the outside. which now seemed brighter. they threw him from one to another until he died. concerned for their trade.????And by observing this rule you get out?????Almost never.