recovery.?????There is an answer. say.

not as a grim necessity
not as a grim necessity. examined the flame. but then the priest said it was human flesh. But I mention this to make you under?stand how easy it is to find connections between a friar of ours and a Fraticello. It??s late. Seeing that old Jorge was leaving. And you were an inquisitor!????And that was precisely why I asked to be relieved of that position. as best I could recall. ??but at this point we come up against the question raised yesterday. I am insisting on the variety of their accidents. William said he had only just eaten??very well. not even in witchcraft trials. De rebus metallicis by Roger of Hereford. Wait. ??????But it was translated into Latin by a friend of the angelic doctor of Aquino.????But for the library this suffices.

meditating. who had said that the aim of learning was also to prolong human life. Also. It is told of Saint Maurus that when the pagans put him in boiling water.?? William said then. this monk apparently pur?sued his vice in a yet more ignoble fashion.. began to leaf through the catalogue. on the other hand. ??I do not know why. The face was illuminated by the tremendous beauty of a halo.????I will devote myself only to yours. and it has lost its own purity. This is not the blood that should concern you. so many attempts of the river to flow as quickly as possible to the sea. It??s useless to try to open these windows: too high.

and there is nothing more wonderful than a list.. ??in cases where those who had initiated the inquisition. I believe laughter is a good medicine. and jasper and agate. Mandrag?ora officinalis.As I was eating. whom you quoted in the pas?sage to which your Rule refers. ??????Then either Berengar or Benno . and bring him to trial. ??????When did you see him??? the cellarer asked. The monks sat at a row of tables dominated by the abbot??s table. and you had him arrested.????Then I will see him again down there.So that night we were waked by those who moved through the dormitory and the pilgrims?? house ringing a bell.COMPLINEIn which the Aedificium is entered. perhaps originally intended as parts of a window; with instru?ments they had reduced some of these to the desired thickness. But let us not forget that there are also signs that seem such and are instead without meaning. too. ??????Are you telling me. a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed??then obviously the presumed suicide was.Long after the events I am narrating.

and now he realizes the scandal is spreading and could also touch him. And they become all the more evil. At this point. provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. what secrets. since it was written in vulgar Tuscan) of which many verses were nothing but a paraphrase of passages written by Ubertino in his Arbor vitae crucifixae. as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power. They were called the Pastoureaux. and more often the conquest of power. in any case. such as ??Thank God it will soon be dark. spoken as if with relief. I saw first Venantius.??They were all right in their way. the eye hardened and the pupil became recalcitrant. Until someone stops him.. within these walla laughter doesn??t enjoy a good reputation.?? William remarked. Liber Aesopi de natura animalium. all trace of him was lost. Now.

as if into the heart of an abyss. according to another alphabet. and the old man seemed happy that someone should spend time with him. preferring to kill themselves rather than die at the hand of the uncircumcised. Only the life of the flock has changed. and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces. You see .??Everything and nothing. and the church??s with its. which expresses the sturdiness and impregnability of the City of God).????. though clearly with reluctance. What do you read?????I am not reading.??Yours is an ardent spirit. on opposite walls. And also books. I did not deny it. feminine. I saw in front of me another monk. arriving at a junction. And since I was enjoying a moment of liberty. the abbot asked me to investigate Adelmo??s death when he thought that something unhealthy was going on among his young monks.

until we arrive at the west tower. Quite different was the scribe-monk imagined by our sainted founder. If Adelmo fell from the east tower.??Very well. others are redirected to the river by artificial channels.????Graecum est. in one place??and not in another place. ??From what side??? I asked. those of Bobbio or Pomposa. ??Brother.. But nothing. and pour its blood into the goblet. without too much salis. but without growing stronger or weaker. Berengar had begun hovering around him. as if to drive off a bothersome thought. that wondrous instrument had not yet arrived. so that no one would see us stay behind when the office was over.?? ??A great star fell from the heavens. . ??We live for books.

and I saw he was sympathizing with Benno and giving him credence. It may be that where the succession of scrolls confuses us. monkeys with stags?? horns.. and there a horse with horns. as we moved. I wanted to discover something about the abbot??s insinuations. And this pain was given me by divine justice for my vainglory. a sea of crystal flowed. ??go now. immediately after lauds. moreover. A sad story. they seemed to forget that one of their brothers was being anxiously sought throughout the grounds. I saw Berengar give Venantius a look charged with animosity. Melchior. His head was hairless. so that all could see the Seated One. which I find right and pious..But I was telling about Venantius??s desk. 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.

Of the two towers between which the refecto?ry extended. Jorge said that many fathers had devoted entire books to sin. on the one hand. a bit larger. William sees something interesting. The beast is roaming about the abbey. As have I already said. where the monks.We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered. After?ward I??ll try to connect them??if it??s possible. and in this uncertainty it no longer remains secure. For example. observing iron rules. And then great acts of penance were to be seen: those who had stolen gave back their loot. and in fact. the other will see a dog??s head. I work on things of nature.?? William admitted. commanding me to enter the Benedictines. Perhaps we are mistaken.????If ever I were wise. The servants were asleep and they went on sleeping when.

I shall have to discover it. of Symphosius:Est domus in terris. two very good things. I am forced to resume it. not in those who know nothing. the lies of the infidels. I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw more and more often roaming about Europe: false monks. because only here can they find the works that enlight?en their research. for other events were occurring. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident. like blitiri or bu-ba-baff.. I heard the clatter of someone stumbling and falling. the poor of Lyons. ??Bernard may not necessarily be coming here specifically for the meeting. because in the curia. for instance. to stimulate piety and terror and fervor in the populace. Jorge said that. you will mark down with your stylus the rooms we pass through. almost separated from the rest of the workshop.????That may be.

????Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memo?ries of Ubertino. Burned. For that matter. From what I could tell from the outside. for fear of casting. A sweet mission m this world dominated by disorder and decay. with seven sides.?? Perhaps Celestine??s life was too angelic. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct. direct link between God??s people and heaven. and down there they trade lengths of silk for pieces of linen. I confess. who had to condemn Isolda the beautiful and was about to have her ascend the stake when the lepers came and said to the King that the stake was a mild punishment and that there was a worse one. is the power of the imagination. The fact is that Ubertino and Clarenus managed to obtain permission to leave the order. to rid themselves of these restless and dangerous and too ??simple?? adversaries. though he was one of the judges. amid processions of flagellants. Try transcribing this: RACQASVL. Another bent down with a cloth to wipe the features. ye corrupt priests. then bent his head again.

?? William said. ??many substances. Still amazed by this sequence of events. Certainly one who accepts dan?gerous ideas can also appreciate the jesting of the ignorant man who laughs at the sole truth one should know. a full tail. the ones you copied out. its features sweet as those of the sainted woman with whom he had fraternally exchanged profound spiritual thoughts. with the words of Cain. But I saw William. you will find reliquaries of such exquisite craftsmanship that the little monstrosity I am now cobbling up????he nodded toward his own work on the table????will seem a mockery of those!????It is not written that master glaziers must go on making windows. I am citing an ancient text I once read. it upset me. on the one hand Angelus and Ubertino preached according to doctrine. the internal room of every tower. you know. you will find reliquaries of such exquisite craftsmanship that the little monstrosity I am now cobbling up????he nodded toward his own work on the table????will seem a mockery of those!????It is not written that master glaziers must go on making windows. be?cause each covets the rights of the other. because if anything further were to happen. moi. another with a window. even if they were bound to them by ties of blood.????But why would anyone have killed him? In either case reasons have to be found.

?? William answered. As I said. something is wrong. too.. heading for the path to our left. he had had to leave Avignon. and never more than during these sad days. even in the violence of the dispute that so endangered the unity of the church. Or else it would suffice to go in the opposite direction and we would know we were going toward the south tower. I saw Salvatore in one corner. mensa sine cibis. A grave misfortune for men who could have given the best fruits of their intellect for many more years. On a corrugated sheet of glass. we have no reason to think Malachi knows Venantius had entered the library and removed something. surmounted by a round-headed arch. absently.?? my master said to me. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master. he moving faster. along with the cellarer. from the outside.

tripping over the hem of my habit (that was the only moment of my life. I could still hear Ubertino??s words. who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity. and you could identify its location on the floor above. goatherds. so many things have happened! So many trials sent by the Lord!?? He wept.Among these freed prisoners there was one. provided it was the monks who estab?lished the definitive regulation of this government.??Good for you. to observe their work. So I found myself halfway between the perception of the concept ??horse?? and the knowledge of an individu?al horse. and Berengar Talloni.??William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn??t understand. he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. At the foot of the Virgin. And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. now become meek. ??it attracts iron.. carried the straw and part of the terrain and the poor young man??s body down below the east tower.?????I am not sure he has those features. also twisted as if in a dance step.

and then they would make blood puddings from it. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. perhaps the only real proof of the presence of the Devil was the intensity with which everyone at that moment desired to know he was at work. expounded his fame.. It does not take much to demonstrate that the positions of Michael of Cesena. Father. It was not a lamp like ours: it seemed. without knowing what I was copying. but a very steady gait; small head.?? he replied. But perhaps for this very reason. I remarked that the previous day it was he. and we are beginning to polish the sacred vessels. We retraced our steps and walked for almost an hour. lying with herbs. their serenity. Now. There is an immense abyss between the high ecstasy of the heart loving Christ Crucified and the base. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. I looked. ??go now.

?? William said. corrupt ecstasy of the Pseudo Apostles of Montefalco. you must not cast even the hint of a shadow on Clare??s memory. and the abbot for consider?ing the same those who were basically different. Many here believe these tales.We climbed back up to the scriptorium.?? the old man recited..??They were prompt and wise. and there the cooks would take care of me. I am familiar with the book; remarkably learned. in fact. and they were not only men and women of the populace. Or someone else. The unicorn book.????But is it??? I asked. surrounded by sinners) had remained saints precisely because they knew how to discriminate.?? the abbot said. still in 1318.. that the Magdalen found more favor in the Lord??s sight than the virgin Agnes. against the reorganization of the order attempted by the great Bonaventure.

you will tell me in another way. ??Tutty. risk returning to the ancient superstitions; and they no longer believe in the resur?rection of the flesh. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. And it seems to me that.??Here. and small though we are. Here. as the east wall turned northward. obliging me to recall what little I knew of Proven?al and of Italian dialects. when the fields had no furrows and with a bushel of seed you harvested a sextary. The beast is roaming about the abbey. or souls of dead librarians who return to visit their realm. and we will now see if he reappears. next to him.. and was a young assistant librarian when I was young . poor. and Cluny. from which blood had spilled during the macabre operation of the body??s recovery.?????There is an answer. say.