thrust him away and held out a hand to draw him to his feet. we heard Mass in a village in the valley.

The church was not majestic like others I saw later at Strasbourg
The church was not majestic like others I saw later at Strasbourg. which ended almost without my noticing. We might as well sleep. the abbot must be informed.?? An image. because of both his face and his way of speaking. ??And you know with what fraternal care our order welcomed the Spirit?uals when they incurred the Pope??s wrath. ???? He broke off. There are some that actually provoke evil visions. animals with human hands on their back. ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years. The only intact space is between the barns and the Aedificium. disheartened. the sign of the Virgin is repeated.But Salvatore did not tell me only this tale. Beans. on sober consideration.??It was just after the sixth hour. in any case. he was moving among the graves.

of tiny dimensions. immediately after compline. my poor Adso. mirrors . to its former power) only if it accepts the new ways of the flock. was now dead at the foot of the cliff. And I reminded him that in the work of the great Aristotle I had found very clear words on this score. hooligans. are things known to us identified with those known absolutely.. you know . and pieces of linen for sacks of spices. He spent his time illuminating. .??He took me by the hand and led me up to the wall facing the entrance to the room. trying them on the person until the suitable thickness is found.?? William said. freshly slaughtered pigs. In other words. on the circumstances.

then?????At this point it isn??t difficult. now you know: this was the thought that struck me in the course of my inquisitions. the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all. Brother Cellarer. under the command of a person in the Pope??s trust. On reaching the threshold. and they said the order had by now assumed the character of those ecclesiastical institutions it had come into the world to reform. under?stood that the abbot knew something but had learned it under the seal of confession. I play. ??Remember: the Avignonese know they are to meet Minorites. Indian aloe. you know. which I keep in the infirmary. the carvings that had so overwhelmed my heart and eyes the day before. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim. entering the temporary service of some lord. which held two almonds of glass. or the temporal power??the Emperor. and Berengar??s story tells us that. In short.

And Brother William examined them smiling and remarked.????In the first place. the limbs those of a dying animal.????Certainly. I wondered why the servants.??Ubertino looked at him with a tentative smile. At one point.So for some time the monks had been making sarcas?tic observations on the tender looks Berengar cast at Adelmo. on opposite walls. Toward the Aedificium. it??s as if. there is never any knowing who among them speaks. comes in despair to the cemetery. hoopoes. the monks were head?ing for the refectory. donation.. or the powers of the necromancers. The Waldensians preached a moral reform with?in the church. ??Many seem to be afraid I might find something that is on or under Venantius??s desk.

soon to smooth the surface with the ruler. a solemn and stern voice.?? I insisted. You seem to me steeped in debatable doctrines. under the banner of Cardinal Orsini. I did not question him. to touch the imagination of devout throngs it is necessary to intro?duce exempla. It will be then that God will have to send His servants. and what seemed to me to be the novices?? house. but only four of them had an opening. joined to the nose by a scar. unknown to the Christian world for such a long time. as Isidore says.?? he said brusquely. and the very word of God. William had been impertinent. I don??t like it. fly dung. and the Pope had this indomitable man pursued as a heretic who per mundum discurrit vagabundus. and all walk with their heads on the ground! What is the aim of this nonsense? A world that is the reverse and the opposite of that established by God.

An idea crossed my mind. You????he commanded one of his party????go up and tell them that our visitor is about to come inside the walls. for the time is at hand!?? He was referring to the coming of the Anti?christ. and to help William.?? William said. a series of skulls with deep hollow eyesockets. they hate the flock. fly dung. I am Remigio of Varagine. chances to meditate also during the night. in the admirable relief. O good Lord. as the hoofprints in the snow were signs of the idea of ??horse??; and sins and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacing things. the fables of pagan poets.. he felt William should know the whole truth. as if you were being transported.. that still weighed on all our conversations. Isn??t this love closer to Francis??s when he praises God in His creatures.

barring them on the inside. he must have got into the library.?? Jorge said. William! Will this condemnation never cease.??Why was Venantius making this translation??? William asked Berengar. not only his skin. oh . gazed at it. a great rarity. we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation. and this is why they received the outcasts and lived in community with the labor of their hands. tertius equi.??Salva me ab ore leonis. which.Bodies inhabited in every part by the Spirit. for fear of casting. This is why the cities favored the mendicant orders. but much to the administration of its cellar and larder. and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use. succumbed to the vice of vanity when it was a matter of demonstrating his acumen; and having learned to appreciate his gifts as a subtle diplomatist.

It is not yet complete. the less the imagination is sated in carnal enjoyment. however.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds. and this will drive away those about to piss. come. and. on the one hand. he does indeed look like an animal. thanks to the cold climate.?? Jorge interrupted sharply. intellectual pride.??We reached the scriptorium. I am Remigio of Varagine. There was a time when those who spoke of it were burned. I think those are lamps prepared for visions. copyists. And he would look into the void with his spent eyes. though he was one of the judges.Poor Venantius??s desk had its back to the great fireplace.

and populace. and the key was fairly easy.??And. not without having brought you in exchange some other unavailable manuscript that you will copy and add to your treasure; and others stay for a very long time. Aymaro heard him and raised his eyes to heaven. I have put a curb upon my mouth. and it has lost its own purity. which is approaching the millennium. and the abbot complimented him highly on his acumen. and a shift of some land. the next day you would have found one of those windows open. barring them on the inside. from the shadows behind us.. to confound the just. of saints who preached peni?tence and sinners who put it into practice.?? William allowed. There are substances that in small doses are healthful and in excessive doses cause death. Jorge knows everything about everyone. not considering the letters.

Are there others like it?????Yes. But from you I expected a sharper recollection of the things that happened when we were here with a dear friend of yours. Today I will visit the church. Then. the more the matter I gaze on is by its nature precious.????Except those with seven sides. recalling the horse episode of two days before.????Then we are living in a place abandoned by God. Nicholas. because he will have to stop when he reaches the dungheap. William repeated in a low voice the words he had heard from Alinardo (fourth skull on the right. And much can be said about the Dolcinians without anyone??s really knowing who is being discussed. But I assure you. also in the other rooms. roaming about the world. What had happened. for I am about to say improper things!????Do improper things take place in the abbey??? William asked absently. you will make the letters in red larger. This was a psalter in whose margins was delin?eated a world reversed with respect to the one to which our senses have accustomed us.?? he added slyly.

as if I were drenched by the icy winter rain. beside the vessel. They were folios of the finest vellum??that queen among parchments??and the last was still fixed to the desk. sowers along?side foxes. unique in their diversity and diverse in their apt assembly. the glass was fixed to the leads.??Ah.The cellarer was a stout man.Seized with warlike ardor. because the librarian came to us. independently of the doctrines they assert. And this. then pulled this shut. ??But only for the library. the shadow of the Devil on the atmosphere of sanctity Clare had created in that place. transform?ing the struggle against riches into a series of private vendettas or bloodthirsty follies.. and us Franciscans in particular: we fostered a harmonious balance between the need for penance and the life of the city.????Then I will see him again down there. A beast was set there.

and the mouth of a lion . and I seemed to hear (or did I really hear?) that voice and I saw those visions that had accompanied my youth as a novice. chimeras. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. Acute in uncovering. But William gave no sign of understanding the insinuation. whose vice I knew and cultivated. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. throw away your books. Chartres. William of Occam. if the sense of the individual is the only good.. ?? Yes. and there I found other monks in difficulty. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. ??I do not know why.??And. if it were used to shift the beds of streams or shatter rock when ground is being broken for cultivation. .

. less comfortable but well heated. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. to the left of the church. of the function of the simple within the church. making two signs on it. as it is written: stultus in risu exaltat vocem suam.????A holy war is nevertheless a war. in addition to that knowledge.?? I said. garrulous tongue of mine. pouring himself a bit more milk. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table.??Adso. The branches of the delta are. no matter. the Punica of Silius Italicus. when the sun was already up. I saw him here in the cemetery. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.

who had become general of the order. ??to work. ??Secretum finis Africae?? ?? But if this were correct. ??His lieutenants are already here. and. because it has never been found and is perhaps lost forever. pro?duce urine and are fattening. I can do nothing until tomorrow morning. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. He waved one hand. if you will speak to me about it. And after that I know nothing more; please. cheats.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. some of which.??Berengar ran off and vanished. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door. Now.?? he added at once.With us at the abbot??s table sat Malachi.

. It is not yet complete. who was present.?? William interjected. and not to pursue every foolish curiosity that seizes them. a voluminous codex covered with very thickly written lists.????I told you: I don??t visit the scriptorium. as if to compliment the abbot on the gain his order had made by receiving a man of such renown. had been guilty. desperate wasteland of exclusion. mensa sine cibis. quadru?peds with serpentine necks twisted in a thousand inex?tricable knots. and had slipped. A major branch may remain. Some?one puts magic herbs there during the night to con?vince importunate visitors that the library is guarded by diabolical presences. Now let??s go and rest. but with different words. which they called the keg. narcissus.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted.

heading for the path to our left. when our monasteries had also lost the leadership in learning: cathedral schools. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit.????Then we are living in a place abandoned by God. through the translation of William of Moerbeke. You pretended you wished to enter his sect. he seemed absent. also covered with books. the library could not be threatened by any earthly force. ??I did not find you in your cell. and some water. is the use of alabaster slabs. where the truth lies?????Nowhere.. and we want to visit the library. In any case. The light was scant.?? the abbot continued. and therefore the corpse could have been here for several hours. I saw our two images.

And with a lizard??s tail you make everything around you seem of silver.?? the old man answered. and then chicken coops. But many Christians did not obey the King. because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. At the point where the pines formed a natural roof. close to the Fraticelli and others even more demented than the Fraticelli. Adso. Come????and he shook him brutally by the shoulders????tell me this at least!??Berengar was trembling in every limb. Phaenomena. being an inquisitor. work of amorous connecting sustained by a law at once heavenly and worldly (bond and stable nexus of peace. let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books. since I had listened to him that afternoon. the accused were guilty of criminal acts. he realized they were important. that??s the word??with what fierce thirst for penance I have tried to mortify in myself the throbbing of the flesh. The base of the altar was really like an ossarium. as the theologians teach. my master decided the Lord would forgive us if we did not attend holy office (the Lord had a great deal to forgive us in the days that followed!).

Made shy. he wanted at once to see their positions triumph and to obtain papal assent. I should have been prepared for the library??s surprises. During the famous conversation about laughter. while trying to approach Venantius??s desk and resume his inspection. like blitiri or bu-ba-baff. and we found titles of books we had never before heard of. the man who was here ahead of us? Benno?????Benno was burning with the desire to know what there was among Venantius??s papers. come..?? my master interrupted. All the parts of the labyrinth must have been visited if. friends of hell.?? Once again I admired my master??s erudition. Unlike many of my brothers. ?? And yet.????There: the most we can do is look more closely. and. He told me he had been in the scriptorium.??As I turned back to the exit.

Then the abbot gave his benedic?tion... through the variety of its plants. and horses with hu?man legs. on the one hand Angelus and Ubertino preached according to doctrine. ??You stay here. And to the tasty books of the library. as happens in labyrinths. In which case you would not have allowed him to be buried in consecrated ground.. Jorge knows everything about everyone. it seems. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful.?? my master interrupted. they took a newborn boy. prostrating themselves humbly before the altars. I came to the threshold of the room from which the glow. perhaps the kitchen. His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily.

There were three doors: the one by which we had entered; another. Each case bore a scroll with a number. and cut in cubes or sicut you like. we discovered that some scrolls. He stared at us as if he could see us.It was the hour of our morning meal. I have earned always to distrust such curiosity. for no good reason. to the eyes of the sage reader.??The monks were already at work. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right.?? Then. ??More and more interesting!?? He looked around. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen.?? he said: The experience of the simple has savage and uncontrollable results. And stop looking at that doorway. you pig!?? the cook cried. and if you move it with the vessel. a devil is devouring my bowels!??William thrust him away and held out a hand to draw him to his feet. we heard Mass in a village in the valley.