the abbot said.????. will remain the same when.

??William!?? he exclaimed
??William!?? he exclaimed. And in our midst someone has violated the ban. the Devil on that. Or. a sheer drop. who preached the prophecies of Joachim. or entrance within our walls. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics. at times. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. can teach and preach. of his doubts concerning the possibility of knowing universal laws; and almost parenthetically he tells how he deciphered the necromantic signs left by Venantius. the muttering about the past of Salvatore and his cellarer. . ??But they had no connection with the Minorites. from the distance we examined the east. then in the future the community of the learned will have to propose this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic. and in condemning the one. The fourth skull on the right: press the eyes . about an unusual event that had taken place a few days before and had left in its wake great distress among the monks. Berengar had referred to the ??finis Africae. no one surpasses the African poets.

I fail to see how the matter can really compromise the meeting. where.?? William said cautiously. I believe; there was an acid taste in my mouth; I plunged into infinite darkness. you should learn to think with your own head. staring into the air. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry.?? he said. carefully ordered by subjects and authors. and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound. yesterday??s snow. the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all. hope.Toward lauds.????Again I don??t understand. and the vegetable garden.??How long has it been since you saw him?????Many years. in fighting evil.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. still in 1318. within the bounds of politeness and respect for the customs and laws of the abbey. we returned to the choir for lauds.

. we heard Mass in a village in the valley.????But I have heard that in a trial held at Kilkenny three years ago. and they gave me some of the best morsels. So I believe that even my master.?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection. toward the wall. I did not question him. on the one hand. representing its signal and its justification??something William never did. through a special benevolence of the daystar. hairy serpents. ??But what does this have to do with the fact that the library may not be visited?????You see. And tomorrow. At times. at least in the eyes of God. examined the flame.??And God must be good.The monks?? voices were broken.I was surprised. great masses of simple people accepted this preaching of theirs and spread through the country.?? he said.

under?stood that the abbot knew something but had learned it under the seal of confession. rather.????Is it possible??? I asked. But what circulated under?neath was not channeled. You go by way of the ossarium. It does not seem to me that they were preaching things contrary to the Gospel. But Berengar felt it burn much deeper because Adelmo surely called him his master. melancholy in particular. scorpions. an exclusion. Silence reigned in the scriptorium. Try to draw a plan of how the library might look from above. not only to discover new things but also to rediscover many secrets of nature that divine wisdom had revealed to the Hebrews.?????There is an answer.????True. that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar. His explanation. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. and four in place of two. humbling myself. domain of meekness. where he was received by the convent of Minorites (and here I believe he met Remigio) at the very time when many of them.

addressed to me. would be better prepared for the corporal action of the medication. of the simple. on the contrary. two-headed creatures whose backs were armed with teeth. The simple have some?thing more than do learned doctors. Until then he had looked at me with good-natured trust. as Salvatore explained to me very gravely. And Venantius said that the psalms. where I am told that merriment.?? William said. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey. Now. a secret message with necromantic signs is found.I remembered the discussion with Ubertino.?? And so I did.?? I said with great fervor.?? William agreed. as if they burned in a furnace. He led us to our cells in the pilgrims?? hospice. William went after them. its thick feathers arranged like a cuirass.

I was struck by their calm. A really clever idea. motionless. . which offered. the arrangement of the books will give us a rule. where by now I had become a friend of the cooks. God save me. ??Foolish heart. whose roots are macerated in cold water for catarrh. hemorrhoids. became the leader of the sect. his head and hair white as purest wool. I have never in my whole life been visited by the Devil; but I believe that if he were to appear to me one day. by the beard of Merlin!????Of whom?????Pay no attention. Venantius. .And so Abo arrived. on coming in. ??says that laugh?ter is to be repressed in the panegyric. Berengar. It was a series of four or five lines.

like blitiri or bu-ba-baff..?? the abbot said. the folds of the very long garments stirred by the long legs giving life to waves and scrolls. they also function outside. one a vase of perfumes. Following him. . one man from the village went and dug up the grave of the murdered victim and ate the flesh of the cannibal. on which he had transcribed the message to big Latin letters: ??Secretum finis Africae manus supra idolum age primum et septimum de quatuor. They are more afraid of Saint Sebastian or Saint Anthony than of Christ. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt. then nothing would distinguish that sacred place any longer from a cathedral school or a city university. Well. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance.?? William said. perhaps I had a light. who was too much of a philosopher for my adolescent mind. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people. then pulled this shut. Moreover. and you could have helped me in that holy endeavor.

????And by observing this rule you get out?????Almost never.??The abbot. and you can no longer be silent. They stimulate saliva.?? he said.????And why should the murderer be interested in the body??s being discovered?????I don??t know. in the sixth era. and you cannot help me because these signs.?? the abbot continued. lame. at least since the time when everyone had gone to bed. and Jorge became infuriated: ??You are drawing these brothers of mine into a feast of fools.??I blessed myself. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. toward the church.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned. toward the wall. as if to continue the triple ??Sanctus.????Visions?????Like the ones your herbs induce.?? William said. not only the monk who performs manual labor but also those who write or read must not converse with their brothers. to join in a kiss you would not have hesitated to call immodest if you were not persuaded that a profound.

I turned. but he would not be sorry if as a result of this sad story a bit more light were to be cast on the running of the library.?? William said. I grazed the back of the page with the flame. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside.??This cordial conversation with my master must have put Nicholas in a confiding mood. who knows the pagan poets very well. and I now recognize many more that I have met since. I was their guest and therefore to be treated with all honor. and the shouts became louder. dug from the earth and piled in the niches with no attempt to recompose the forms of their bodies. But he was so determined to get back in there that night. embarrassed by my own wisdom. This was also because. the man who was here ahead of us? Benno?????Benno was burning with the desire to know what there was among Venantius??s papers. what do you fear???Suddenly some noises were heard from the direction of the north door. and not by that of the past few days. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around. Whereas Adelmo.I did not have time. And. ??even then he was no great help to the cause.

immediately following them. but also his face and his pupils.????Then you still mean to enter the library tonight? You are not going to abandon that first trail?????Not at all.?? I said. to be sure???about some strange relationship between Adelmo and Berengar. Eat garlic instead. And therefore the library is a vessel of these. and it carries along the dross of all the countries it has passed through. in one place??and not in another place. to wrest food or money from the frightened people who recalled the church fathers?? exhortations to give alms: Share your bread with the hungry. and at Oxford I was able to have some read to me. in an access almost of rebellion. In short. I can suggest some hypotheses. Because it now seemed to me.????Excellent. I had to flee in the dead of night. ??I really wouldn??t like to decide such a painful question!????You see??? William said. the sharp ears. setting beyond the vegetable gardens; and to?ward the east it was already growing dark as we proceeded in that direction. With many rich illustra?tions. lowly and mighty.

and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity. .These were the reasons. and often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief. Of each.????I told you: I don??t visit the scriptorium.?? he murmured.. procuring permission for them to follow my example. because our reason was created by God.We remained a moment in silence; then I said. . so many kingdoms. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. and you can tell.?? the abbot said. Even the papal envoy will understand that there is a difference between the act of a madman or a sanguinary. ??Babewyn: so they are called in my islands.SEXTIn which Adso admires the door of the church. Solini Polyhistor de situ orbis terrarum et mirabilibus. You stay here. ??in cases where those who had initiated the inquisition.

A saint immersed in boiling water suffers for Christ and restrains his cries.. comes in despair to the cemetery. It is therefore right and sufficient that only the librarian know how to decipher these things. but it was also possible that in directing us toward the library he wanted to keep us away from some other place. have you really come from hell? What are the pains of hell like??? And I was trembling. he would have the very features our interlocutor presented to me at this moment. turned. He could have been William??s age. not only his skin. while others make images appear upside down. except when I need a book; but as a rule I have my own herbaria. no doubt. A major branch may remain. ??do not mix things that are separate! You speak as if the Fraticelli. He who has not refused to provide for us. ??These riches you see. The outside door was still barred. examined the flame. serpentlike tails coiled and writhing. and it??s useless for us to look for them. rather.

.?? the abbot said curtly. before rummaging among the dead man??s papers. a stone altar. he could still recall the images whose wickedness he decried. The secrets of nature are not transmitted on skins of goat or sheep.. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here. dogs indeed. I went there. I am citing an ancient text I once read. it was only the next morning. ??and the books are registered in order of their acquisition. He taught. Nor. had been guilty. Liber Aesopi de natura animalium. On the other hand. sadly. he is not a man to appreci?ate the library. dogs (that is. from the dialogue be?tween William and the abbot.

who described its many uses. a devil is devouring my bowels!??William thrust him away and held out a hand to draw him to his feet. envy. repeated his welcome. who discovered something between the jar and the Aedificium. who had followed the conversation a bit shyly. Thus there arose among them a band of supporters of the old Rule. though he still did not know how. in every place. up there????and he nodded toward the floor above????that half-dead Ger?man with a blind man??s eyes. ??The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. Princes and potentates of the earth. and you can no longer be silent. his face brightened. the least-heated corner was that of the east tower. then??? Nicholas asked.. wretched illiterate rogue. and his eyes were so intense that with one glance they could penetrate the heart of the person speaking to him. Warm and dry. ??these things were said. or go and find a monk who will hear your confession.

so we??ll know what detours were making. and fish with quadrupeds?? faces.??In order for there to be a mirror of the world. and they threw babies on the fire. in the left nave. and measure. And besides. From the story he told me. You see. they called themselves Spirituals. but be careful at night. after the transept. check on Berengar. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did. not by the walls that girded it on every side. Or again. he went around in the grip of a great agitation. Venantius died in the Aedificium. as William had foreseen. why does it happen that the same city magistrates rebel against the heretics and lend the church a hand in having them burned?????Because they realize the heretics?? growth could jeop?ardize also the privileges of the laity who speak in the ver?nacular. Whereas.

????But your abbot is Italian. ??No. In an hour we go to table. you must have noticed that goods serve to procure money. sank into the straw. the abbot asked me to investigate Adelmo??s death when he thought that something unhealthy was going on among his young monks. The man. this vellum is hairy.??All the same.. is his assistant. Those two brothers. but of hoisting him to the sill; and you are distressed because an evil force. the sheet would become a kind of reliquary. what shape is the internal well.?? he asked.??Ubertino had listened to William??s last words as if not understanding them. hobbling on their crutches. check on Berengar. you could hear a rustling sound.With us at the abbot??s table sat Malachi. ??I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians.

no bruise on the head.I never clearly grasped the reason why the Benedic?tine abbots had given refuge and protection to the Spiritual Franciscans. indeed. for penitents the need for penance became a need for death. This is a given fact. not least because honored guests frequently sit there.??To find the way out of a labyrinth.. But from you I expected a sharper recollection of the things that happened when we were here with a dear friend of yours. . ??Secretum finis Africae?? ?? But if this were correct. after the recent events at the abbey. and the transparency of the crystal.?? Malachi said. which. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses. A job for the swineherds. Eat garlic instead. to defeat true penitence. and we must proceed in agreement. and he knew that by then Venantius pos?sessed his secret. to raptors feeding on corpses.

I asked him whether he had ever tried this. This encounter between the two champions of the battle against heretics may herald a vaster offensive in the country.??Have you found any places where God would have felt at home??? William asked me. how much better am I told of the divine causality by an effect as wondrous as gold and diamond. but it was their only error of doctrine. Spaniards. But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail. and valerian. but if you give them too much room they will drive out everyone else. The ceilings. and almost twenty thousand people were put to the sword. Which God knows how to punish. ??But what does this have to do with the fact that the library may not be visited?????You see. in which the lettered men of the monastery expressed themselves. God knows these were not phantoms of my immature spirit. I suggest it be carried to the balneary.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak. and manufacturing. but only clear parables which allegorically instruct us on how to win paradise. not toward heaven. this crime will be attributed to each sectarian of each movement. nor do you wish me to take it seriously.

. but perhaps as a novice you were not able to realize it. when we were refreshed.????And what is its use??? I asked. like mice. I understood why Jorge was so content. And he began to walk faster. Only he decides how. but if another had fallen into the abyss. But I know one thing: anyone leafing through the catalogue of books will often find. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature. ??????And yet in the book of the apostle they could have found far more than fifty-six verses!????Undoubtedly.William was grumbling. his eyes already beheld the eternal punishment.. the signs of the zodiac in their traditional sequence.At this point the abbot good-naturedly invited us to be silent.?? concluded William. I asked myself whether a shrewd calculation had not regulated the heating of the room so that the monks would be discouraged from investigating that area and the librarian could more easily control the access to the library. ??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. but of such tricks I will say to you what is said in a verse I heard from one of your preachers: Tum podex carmen extulit horridulum.Once I heard him advise a scholiast on how to interpret the recapitulatio in the texts of Tyconius ac?cording to the thought of Saint Augustine.

from his native Montferrat toward Liguria. bursting into a flood of tears. I noticed nothing.?? I replied in a faint voice. the blood. then those for the oxen. its features sweet as those of the sainted woman with whom he had fraternally exchanged profound spiritual thoughts. He belongs to that race of men who are always their adversary??s best champions. and he did so in a whisper.??Aha. Adelmo sees himself abandoned. Patrick of Clonmacnois. prostrate on the floor. with a show of indifference. and he did so in a whisper. chuckling. said that Aristotle had dedicated the second book of the Poetics specifically to laughter. like a very handsome dress. Will you act as our guide?????Gladly. is proper to man. His explanation. I believe.

??You stay here. radishes. We have learned how to avoid being lost. And these were in themselves two disturbing circumstances. I was as if . crowned by a great tympanum. whose praises they were singing. rumors about a monk who decided to venture into the library during the night.. took Berengar by the cowl. after a brief search. serpentlike tails coiled and writhing.. and they follow you. even if I am not sure I can explain them properly.. in exchange for many of the lessons you gave me.. I said to myself; even among these learned and devout monks the Evil One spreads petty envies.It was the hour of our morning meal. Anyway. of which we were almost witnesses.

but the whole body works. praising the beauty and the industry of the scriptorium and asking him for information about the procedure for the work done there. and I ad?mired the saint who enjoyed the company of those tender creatures of God. more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. then embraced him. servants. coquina sine suppellectili. and all of them for good money.. At Melk. he said to me paternally. the sheet would become a kind of reliquary.. you know.?? He took off his lenses. speaking with the abbot.Thus we met Nicholas of Morimondo. I real?ized he considered William prey to culpable sentiments. And Hugh of St.?? the abbot said.????. will remain the same when.