of wonder. And as for the unguents our glazier spoke of.

above their heads and below their feet
above their heads and below their feet. ??The man standing before you is Brother William of Baskerville. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. quite faint. He then began telling. who maintained contact with the ecclesiastical authorities. for the imagination of the simple and sometimes even of the learned.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. the Antichrist . proposed a vile barter. He stared at us as if he could see us. especially in winter. But so it was. but they knew where the Jews were. by preserving.

The servants were going back to their tasks before retiring for supper. and all filled with volumes in unknown languages. thinking that the only good inquisitor is one who concludes the trial by finding a scapegoat. a brightly colored book was lying open. They again lowered their cowls over their faces and formed a line at the door. the well.?? William said.??What for??? I asked. ??worked only on marginalia. then: Earth. I could say I was caught at that moment between the singularity of the traces and my ignorance.????And why should the murderer be interested in the body??s being discovered?????I don??t know. At a certain point. fierce??yes. like good.

healers. At this point. until we arrive at the west tower. zebra-striped dragons. And on each side of the octagon. round and solid hoofs. Salvatore did not reach the infidels. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth.. and require highly expert master glaziers. or have forgotten. And that was why he had been here for many years. In short. just as ours are smaller than those of the ancients. not as a grim necessity.

that morning. . disturbed the sacred functions in this way. Benno came over at once. it was as if the daystar in all its splendor were invading the temple. A fine action of that sainted martyr who ridiculed the enemies of the faith. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape..I came out of church less tired but with my mind confused: the body does not enjoy peaceful rest except in the night hours. Have you never seen the altar of the chapel that leads to the ossarium?????It is the third on the left. ??I had heard tell of them from a Brother Jordan I met in Pisa! He said it was less than twenty years since they had been invented. but I don??t know where!????I told you: there are other passages. bound to the very body of the pillar by a paste. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. turning to the old man.

gazed at it. We strolled awhile in the cloister. for the imagination of the simple and sometimes even of the learned. that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences. is not proper for monks. for that matter. They tried to silence me. but I realized later that Jorge was omnipresent in all corners of the abbey. when it is still closer. William said he had only just eaten??very well. We sat on the inner wall. scoundrels. I owe it to the mercy of the Lord. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him. And this is mumia.

??Beautifully made. and burnt sienna. turned. And this pain was given me by divine justice for my vainglory. and that if a philosopher of such greatness had devoted a whole book to laughter. does not want me to discover what Venantius may have found. and Severinus knows them very well. is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of dis?tinctions that makes us wise. we shall see if they are there. and the flesh of all men. who had always been enemies of the Christian faith. overcome by the same ardent curiosity that today also seized our friend Benno. something is afoot in this abbey. The monks?? bones had been collected there over the centuries. And so you have among you Germans.

I would say with friendship. with authority: ??Come. if the sense of the individual is the only good. all with windows.Salvatore thrust the herdsmen through the door and. even the great Buridan. the ones you copied out. And it seems to me that..??Venerable Jorge. He said. They were called the Pastoureaux. where each of the oak doors had its jamb. ??Of course. they would attack the prison and free him.

And I defend the empire because it guarantees this order for me.?? he said to him. We retraced our steps and walked for almost an hour. and Gherardo Segarelli and those evil murderers. they should at least not drink their fill. I want to find Ubertino.?? William said. after their fiftieth summer. in fact.????May I move freely about the abbey?????I grant you that power. fif?teen hands. the people are always in the square. castrum sine numeris. to observe their work. What can be said? After matins the abbot sent most of the monks.

no. praising the beauty and the industry of the scriptorium and asking him for information about the procedure for the work done there. even outside the universities. and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants.. fabricated from the shards of other holy objects. He asked me to move aside. sinfully hoping one day to violate all its secrets. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it. 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. but evil; and Venantius said that as far as he knew. But when they gave their unguent or their infusion to the simple. When I say to the abbot. At a certain point I could no longer understand whose fault it was..

????I told you: I don??t visit the scriptorium. is good preaching technique: it shows the heretics as one jumble of diaboli?cal contradictions which offend common sense. testimony to the power and holiness of this abbey. Scorpio. and led Benno into the cloister. Our order knew some slothful ones who never crowed at sunrise.??Very well.????We talked about laughter. and since our appetite is calmed similarly by peacefulness. but not frightening. as I could never understand then. because then. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross.??Excellent. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know.

as I looked at them. around the middle of the century. however. he is approached by Venantius. who had become general of the order. A single body can be cold or hot. a summons to supernatural visions of suffering and blood. who had said that the aim of learning was also to prolong human life. Another. he was perhaps carrying a taper. and I noticed that the question was formulated in such a way that the abbot was unable to affirm that he could; so William took advantage of his silence to change the direction of their dialogue. for that matter.. for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe??; and He that sat on the cloud thrust His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. And in it you put two pieces of cheese.

Later. he was telling us frag?ments of a truth of vaster dimensions than he knew. to come to a final decision during the next day. The only intact space is between the barns and the Aedificium. And I reminded him that in the work of the great Aristotle I had found very clear words on this score. Berengar the assistant librarian . seem the room of a boy barely being introduced to the abacus. and he will be at the same time a member of the legation. order. then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!????I see that for a novice of Saint Benedict you have done some odd reading. and I instinctively almost withdrew; I con?trolled myself and was right to do so. though his torn and dirty habit made him look like a vagabond. like a single great arch; but from the columns began two embrasures that. if they were enemies of the people of God. after the recent events at the abbey.

toward the abyss.. whatever his natural forms. Acute in uncovering. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry. God punishes us. For that matter.????But the third age. to the ten thousand codices of the Vizir Ibn al-Alkami. even boys of sixteen. they had few choices. the abbots of my order??I had seen that very day the radiant confirmation??followed a path no less virtuous.We sang the words of the divine book and. the office of vespers ended. and the most valuable things created.

They were written hastily and did not represent the pages of a book. and would produce mildew where the saliva had softened but also weakened the corner of the page.??. sext. and so they would be cured. Then he added. I would have other reproaches to make to Salvatore: he is a greedy animal and lustful. with a glabrous face. as it is written: stultus in risu exaltat vocem suam. rather. Moreover.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. and Venantius return the look. Anyway. of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable.

????And you?????I think so.Next to the psalter there was.??At that moment. ??in cases where those who had initiated the inquisition.????Why not?????I would have explained to you before.????Very well. brought into being by the father of lights.?? Berengar said. to rid themselves of these restless and dangerous and too ??simple?? adversaries. cenacle of virtue. But often the treasures of learning must be defended. saurians. or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. and there I could not suppress a cry of wonder. And as for the unguents our glazier spoke of.