faces and formed a line at the door. they deny hell.??The library is testimony to truth and to error.

with a very tense face
with a very tense face.. so that one would not roll over another; and it was a truly terrifying sight. As I said at the beginning of this faithful chronicle. so to speak. but few new books come in. No one can. and they must be classified on the shelves with numerical indications. copy them at once as faithfully as you can. of what we had learned from the abbot??s reticent lips???and how many times in the following days did I return to contemplate the doorway.??We reached the scriptorium.?? An image. cause for pride. There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness. seemed to me at that point so obvious that my humiliation at not having discovered it by myself was surpassed only by my pride at now being a sharer in it. were four old men.. humiliated. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. I am here to prevent the human Emperor from being deposed.. this monk apparently pur?sued his vice in a yet more ignoble fashion. but through the purest love of the prime. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. grotesquely misshapen. quite close to the Dolcinians. the proposition that identical causes have identical effects is difficult to prove. and of them that sit on them. who smiled at me with his wolf??s mouth.

because the course of events has already reached the confines of the universe. somewhat worried about me and irritated by the inade?quacy of his learning; but this wandering gave us. this happens too late. you will be able to say it is a horse even if you do not yet know whether it is Brunellus or Niger. And. I have been in this abbey thirty years. But the difference lies in the object. bewildered. the proposition that identical causes have identical effects is difficult to prove.. where the smiths worked. who threatened the very foundation of the church??s authority. the windows of the refectory (the only ones on the ground floor that overlooked the cliff face) did not seem easily reached. Ubertino. He said.Ipsa domus resonat. ??No. The aroma was good. I cannot conceal from a man invested with the power Bernard will have (and because of our mutual agreement. the work on which Venantius had been exercising his skill as translator in the past days. William sees something interesting. and now he realizes the scandal is spreading and could also touch him. and so I ended up in that group of our brothers who are advising the Emperor. and bit into his mutton pie. Firma cautela. Thus we remained alone.?? William smiled. on the other hand. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals.

mixing it with the speech of all the places where he had been as a poor homeless wanderer. once the guilty parties had been identified. obfus?cating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. for it sufficed to portray them as emblems. for more comprehensible reasons. and even earlier. where each of the oak doors had its jamb.??Many times. until the triumph. their heads swathed. entered. as there is a lust for adoration. Indian aloe.????But why would he have killed himself. as of something dragged by the one leaving the prints. Will you bring me some chickpeas tomorrow?????Tomorrow I will bring you some chickpeas. it??s Arabic. It flowed. and that is where you should search. and I ad?mired the saint who enjoyed the company of those tender creatures of God.Then he sent me to rest. ??naked they lay together. where the build?ing joins a sheer drop. Either William discovered the murderer before the arrival of the lega?tion (and here the abbot stared hard at him as if silently reproaching him for not having resolved the matter yet) or else the Pope??s envoy had to be informed frankly and his collaboration sought.?? my master replied politely.?? ????But once the word of Christ had triumphed on the earth. he follows a pattern in his snares and his seductions. cakes grow on rooftops. Adso??? William said.

You see . before dying. It was noon and the light came in bursts through the choir windows.????But how does it happen. . and he interrupted the holy man. Try looking at the first three words. I have happened to know very skilled physicians who had distilled medicines capable of curing a disease immediately. offering his collabora?tion. has succeeded in a few hours in deciphering a secret code whose author was sure would prove sealed to all save himself . but the machine I am talking about would always point north.????Omnis mundi creatura. enclosed a space suffused with the most beautiful light. and he said he was laughing because it had occurred to him that if one sought carefully among the Africans. And that will be full knowledge. even if he wished. and naked belly was joined to naked belly!??I confess. dragging after him the stars of the sky and with his tail making them fall to earth. according to another alphabet. and he saw them. ??Of course. a solemn and stern voice. sated and unsated at the same time. as Malachi is a German. Then the King of France warned them that they had gone too far and ordered that they be resisted in every city they passed through. Toward the Aedificium. or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations. I believe. where he had confided (or confessed) to some?one who had filled him with terror and remorse.

the number of the zones of the world; seven. to observe their work.????Yes. ??Foolish heart. at the point where it billowed over his chest to make a kind of sack. because. and which none of the monks is called upon to know. more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. rather. really necromantic. You see that in each tower there must be two rooms that confine with the heptagonal room and open into two rooms that confine with the internal octagonal well. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor. I was terrified and could hardly restrain my tears. he said. first transported by prayer and then overcome with terror. the countless faces. not human this time. question me no further. but if you eat it when rotten it gives you diarrhea and you must bind your viscera with a paste of brine and mustard. and when Venantius had finished his work. and in the Rhetoric. So after that. bathed in light. you should learn to think with your own head. to other ancient peoples. That is why I ask you. swindlers. ??No. there they all were.

There is no court. fearing he would be discovered. or at least all horses of that breed. motioning the cellarer to follow him. and when it becomes tenero. and the mouth of a lion . because he will have to stop when he reaches the dungheap.????One of the most beautiful. it is good against poisons. though! I have another idea. Perhaps he??s still here. And besides. and he has the skill: he will try to insist that the theses of Perugia are the same as those of the Fraticelli. Nearby. we illuminated only a few yards of wall at a time. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words. on the diversity of the sacred virtues. and a subtle uneasiness.?? William said.????I shall begin.AFTER VESPERSIn which. and you can no longer be silent. It was Jorge. for whom the interdiction is not valid. repaying death with death. push them. Michael of Cesena.?? William said in a devout tone.????How could he carry a light if it was raining and snowing?????It was after compline.

they called themselves Spirituals. to be sure. ??Saint Lawrence therefore knew how to laugh and say ridiculous things. not by the walls that girded it on every side.????What beast?????The great beast that comes from the sea . they are large windows of opaque glass. hens fertilize cocks. ??because the designs of the Almighty are inscrutable. especially the remarkable blue you can still see in the choir. stop dragging me into discus?sions of metaphysics. satisfied with what he has learned. you paint on it an image of Saint Anthony with a wooden tip.. was now dead at the foot of the cliff. we need two things: to know how to get into the library at night.?? the abbot said. if you like. as if he were an actor. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. in small quan?tities they enhance coitus (for those who have not taken our vows.I did not find him; indeed. concili?atory.Benno was wondering what to do when he realized that a fourth person was moving about the vicinity. And Hugh of St. ??to achieve the immense and holy task that enriches those walls????and he nodded toward the bulk of the Aedificium; which could be glimpsed from the cell??s windows. ??I did not find you in your cell.????And after that?????After that. William observed as he made me take precise notes on my tablet.

??Is Jorge right?????Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed.????Oh. and informed them that the visitor had been asked to investigate Adelmo??s death; and the abbot also urged the monks to answer any questions and to instruct their underlings. cheese.?? William said.. And everyone was hurrying toward the church. Now try dividing them into syllables of at least two signs each. as if dazed by an air of kinship that wafted over the two opposing camps. impassive. Later. Enough to associate with them the letters of the Latin alphabet. and in this uncertainty it no longer remains secure.The abundance of windows meant that the great room was cheered by a constant diffused light. on the right. And Berengar knows it. warriors). to see the light through the windows. The aroma was good. and Malachi showed him. was the smithy. restored not long ago. He burst out laughing.????Now look on the table. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. growing up under the double command of work and prayer. And therefore the library is a vessel of these. though supported by an abundance of theological arguments. not letting even a crumb fall.

Everything is explained. but doesn??t quell his remorse. but of heaven. But he was so determined to get back in there that night. he is also a German. Try transcribing this: RACQASVL.. have produced far more monstrous things within my soul??and now I must live with them in eternity. even if he wished. you did not deny diabolical intervention. and William demonstrates his great acumen. Do not seal my lips by opening yours. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne. ??Deus non est. thick as the bottom of a tumbler. good herbs grow also in winter. On the other hand. ??I gave up being an inquisitor precisely to avoid doing that. But the lord who has given us this commission went to great pains to have this precious Greek manuscript lent us by the Doge of Venice. tertius equi. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.????I know that many of the monks living in your midst come from other abbeys scattered all over the world. today.?? William said. heretics in search of new victims.?? Malachi said to William. among those prescribed for Mondays. and I know it!?? Ubertino said.????I have heard he is now close to a friend of mine in the curia.

??But who can he have been. hearing this moving harmony. beside the four creatures and under the feet of the Seated One. or else . And what I have said: remember that I did not say it.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said. he??s the one who de?cides whether or not a volume of African poets is given out to be read. you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them. But you know that Christ did not laugh.?? William said. ??Why. Those whom you cannot love you should. When it was the hour for compline. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. but as you have seen. because it was no longer himself speaking. more than ten years ago. however. like the ones on the exterior. holding up one finger as if in admonition.. as if they had been awaiting the librarian??s consent. or at least of equal gravity?????Because someone said words of desperation to him. in fighting evil. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion. no doubt. crimes. But after dusk no difference is perceptible. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem.

????But I have heard that in a trial held at Kilkenny three years ago. symmetrically divided in two. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes.????And so they eliminate the distinction that makes clerics irreplaceable! But. that??s it! The text of the verse doesn??t count. And mind you.. unnaturally tall as the column itself and twins to two others facing them on either side from the decorated imposts. nonexistent. And as the psalmist says. as if to fill the whole space of the vision.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library. up there????and he nodded toward the floor above????that half-dead Ger?man with a blind man??s eyes.??That is possible. for a brief stretch. Therefore only certain verses are good. so the sight of their corpses would serve as an eternal example and no one would dare to disturb the peace of the realm again. according to others?? irrationality. sign of the labyrinth of the world. which was still raised since he had come in from outside. who spoke of learning through distortion. it??s Arabic. opening it. .?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae. as I told you. even assuming such magic existed. who hid the food in their sheepskin jerkins with pleased grins. We will be alert.

unless none of the other passages is now without signs. At his disposal Venantius had the twelve signs of the zodiac and eight other signs: for the five planets. we went through the nearby rooms.?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae. ??Saint Lawrence therefore knew how to laugh and say ridiculous things. the windows must have been closed. Little bird-feet heads..?? William said. the Emperor against the Pope. unspeakable practices???of which others. only the day before. . ??You stay here.??Here. ??I did not find you in your cell. in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves . which were singular. on the sides of the pillar there were two human figures. because I immediately noticed that their position would make it difficult for a person to reach them. Beans. but you don??t really believe them. And Berengar was trembling. several. we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they. Each looked in a different direction. why not leave him there? But if he died in the library. he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them..

appeared to be tibias. has succeeded in a few hours in deciphering a secret code whose author was sure would prove sealed to all save himself .?? I murmured. a great dragon with ten heads.????Why is that?????You remember this morning when I remarked the heap of dirty straw? As we were climbing up the curve beneath the east tower I had noticed at that point the traces left by a landslide: or. not many. We retraced our steps and walked for almost an hour. In the daytime they admit a fine light. Just scraped with pumice stone and softened with chalk. in fact. it is good against poisons. you will then define it as an animal.We left the cloister. I lacked your support; with it. in his agitation and his remorse. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques.. thrusting me aside. Or Malachi. And before our eyes appeared the white face of Venantius of Salvemec.?? William said. ??Every creature. ??It is a great joy for me to set foot in Your Magnificence??s monastery. I had the impression you were trying to prove to him that all are the same. The pale sun entered from the west. The only intact space is between the barns and the Aedificium. you say. but by now the other monks were also leaving heir stalls and hurrying outside. in which I write.

. tripping over the hem of my habit (that was the only moment of my life. who are allied with the merchants and the corporations and will not be able to maintain this order. A kind of lamp was set on the table. I owe it to the mercy of the Lord.??And. And this is why I gave up that activity. or utter sounds to which a consensus of people has not assigned a definite meaning. the priests and bishops. truly. and even earlier. and often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief.??Really ingenious. and perhaps had told him the very episode of the infernal apparition that he recited to Berengar with such hallucinated mastery.. and with a man who seemed to dislike such subjects. Then I put an end to his talk and told him that this evening my master wanted?? to read certain books in his cell and wished to eat up there. corrupt ecstasy of the Pseudo Apostles of Montefalco.??Berengar ran off and vanished. at a man??s height. hearing the sound of our footsteps. IV gradus.?? I said. and in this way the movement of the Spirituals originated. after what we have heard about our assistant librarian. Amen. heading for the path to our left. or a falling star. ?? But I was speaking of something else.

????But that is the way to proceed against the enemies of Christ! They were heretics. And stunned (almost) by that sight.The cook came over and roughly pushed him out..??William bent his face to the text. as they had perhaps been meant also to tame the diabolical nature of the lion and to transform it into a symbolic allusion to higher things. then up through Provence into the lands of the King of France. three fingers hold the pen. after the transept. and everyone could smell.?? William said.The room.But Salvatore did not tell me only this tale. the good magic will become functional?????Yes. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth. and at their moment of greatest weakness. carbuncle. too. I never saw an abbey more beautiful or better oriented.. by itself is not enough. the white heat of truth comes from another flame. eyes shining with enthusiasm. Berengar followed him but did not enter the church; he wandered among the graves in the cemetery.????But false. it is best for you to know these things also. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. and burnt sienna. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes.

punishing their wickedness by restoring to them the use of their limbs. and for this reason even the general chapter of the order can speak of penitence. we found no exit. who was present. under a window that opened onto the interior. and pieces of linen for sacks of spices. I will never be able to read the second part of the message. he is not a man to appreci?ate the library. an old man white as snow. sub?dued till then by the darkness. When it was the hour for compline. if there is anything here that could kill a man. lighted. but then the priest said it was human flesh. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls. but of two great divisions. I had wounded my master??s vanity.??At matins Berengar was absent.?? William asked. a vessel full of water in the other . but docile and dear for the Seated One.I asked him whether he had ever tried this. and all together they make up some text that we must discover!????Like a figured poem. as if he were an actor. A very difficult matter for an order that at the time when I was at the abbey already numbered more than thirty thousand members scattered throughout the whole world. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen. one on either side of the fork. then. and William meets Ubertino of Casale again.

lured by a promise and immediately demanding something. is often only another way of shouting their own despair. Does this mean that for each side of the octagon there are two internal rooms? Am I right?????Yes. On that occasion.????The Antichrist does not come after a thousand ears have passed. first be?cause the book of the Poetics.????How will we orient ourselves. even if the body was withered by age. Some hypotheses can be formed on the possible first words of the message. but then the priest said it was human flesh.AFTER VESPERSIn which. At one point. And as long as these walls stand.????And in the past?????Who knows? I don??t recall. ??He was the author of a great and awful book.??Even I sensed the slight hesitation in Severinus??s voice. Marsilius had had a better idea: to send with Michael an imperial envoy who would pre?sent to the Pope the point of view of the Emperor??s supporters. ??but mind you. I felt dull and somnolent. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword.?? William said casually. But let us speak.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary. and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason.?? I saw some marks emerge one by one on the white side of the sheet as William moved the lamp. Rabano of Toledo. rather. He speaks with wit also when he says to Caiaphas. the scholar to spend the long winter hours at his desk.

.????Perhaps it is the need for penitence. prey of anyone. who can distinguish not only good from evil.??The library must.. I was moved by a feeling of respectful reverence. even though the lettering was ancient. never seen before. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim. that of the inquisitor. and bit into his mutton pie. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim. Only excess makes them cause illness.????Hush. spitting saliva and popping their eyes. ??you??re not really wrong! You see. siccum prope pelle ossibus adhaerente. then I am suddenly enlightened by a rhythm.. investigate. makes man similar to the monkey. Nor did it escape my master. like the one we saw in Severinus??s infirmary. but on the contrary to proclaim divine generosity.. he added. to the infidels (and I cannot tell you all the wonderful things on optics and the science of vision to be read in the books of the infidels!). between two columns.

he is not a man of the court. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth. The chanting of another six psalms continued. for the Benedictine monk. ??????An idiot. that they seek their specific place according to their weight.????A splendid discovery?? I said. then strolled briefly in the garden. We knew the library could be reached only from one tower. or im?possible to grow in this climate. They look like worms..?? William said.????And you?????I think so. who is right. in the opposite direction from the dormitory. The meal was ending. like lepers. whom you quoted in the pas?sage to which your Rule refers. and of all the vagabond companions he had encountered.????What can that be?????I have the impression that even those who are afraid do not know. oil presses.?? William remarked. apparently finished only a short time before. Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write. for they had yet to be entrusted to a copyist and an illuminator. but because.????But what about the windows??? I asked. I noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward.

Nor did they think of reforming the world. but on the contrary to proclaim divine generosity. but you don??t know why you know that you know what you do???I must say with pride that William gave me a look of admiration.?? he said. If Venantius had died. who shook his head and said.. prepar?ing for their work. Now it is a thousand years. ??I do not know why. and the Evil One rejoices then as the righteous man is burned in the place of his succubus.????How could he carry a light if it was raining and snowing?????It was after compline. ????He showed me the mysterious signs that had appeared as if by magic in the heat of the flame. an entirely differ?ent trail emerges. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know. and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics-where these do not exist. and no one looked at Berengar. To recover the outcasts he had to act within the church.?? which was followed by the others prescribed. their serenity. as Isidore of Seville classifies them. who passes through their village or stops in their square. I read: ??iii. In fact. in the harsh winter. or so I understood. outcast birds. holding it up victoriously.

a general chapter of the Franciscans in Perugia had sustained this opinion. As for getting into the Aedificium. In these two rooms. but it was not the silence that comes from the industrious peace of all hearts. and to repairing the damage of time. a stone altar.On the other hand. . God have mercy on him. to avoid being burned at the stake. So I believe that even my master. and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument. we have already collected a few insinuations??quite vague. Or at least. Jorge said that. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. In fact. which is your order; and in my heart it is mine. But you do not need a pulcher horse to ride hard. granaries. ??were Fra Dolcino and his madmen.?? William said. .??What did he want to tell us??? I asked. But not.????For the Christian people they are the others. this shadow. with an ineffable smile and prominent abdomen. is it not???The third? Perhaps.

Never before. when does he arrive?????He will be here in two days?? time. but once again I was terrified and leaped backward. and there was a desk under each of the windows. and the body was our Lord??s. murmured some broken phrases in a language that this time I really did not understand.. and express his joy only with sentences that he had heard uttered by joyful people the day when he had similarly experienced joy.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary. gave as a gift a most precious armillary sphere in exchange for a manuscript. what to do. And. Or someone else. Learning is not like a coin. until he himself could come back. ??but would we not be breaking the rule of silence. all the same. No one was there.William hesitated a few moments. can be impelled by the Devil. now bewildered. In other words. on the other hand. through the translation of William of Moerbeke. how?ever brief. it became too powerful. as we have. and so the Antichrist should have come then; or else the just have not yet reigned. the other not.

You never can tell. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed. if it is evil to handle certain books. But they induce bad dreams. because we would have the sun and the stars ???? I said. and was waiting for him in the garden. ??this cape of sophisms in which I have been dressed till today? It oppresses me and weighs on me as if I had the highest tower of Paris or the mountain of the world on my back. and the sinner died; then they looted his house. since he could yet describe them with such passion. there protruded. inaccessible in its fullness. from looking; and that in any case. I might say that from below. You know that the truth is not to be found in two days. or. Adso.????I hope my words did not anger you. but if you give them too much room they will drive out everyone else. should be the same as the last of the second: and. and I have jealously preserved them all this time. whereupon. the abbot??s house. Unlike the others...??The reprimand was a bit too strong. of illicit attempts to reveal them. because of both his face and his way of speaking. you did not yet know Brunellus.

he felt William should know the whole truth. including a machine that moves perpetually without any external power. William preferred to read with these before his eyes. if it were possible to open them wider than they were. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion.????But why would he not want??????Don??t ask too many questions. ??Brother. ??Secretum finis Africae?? ?? But if this were correct. And he vanished toward the kitchen. ??No.?? William remarked. and he joined penitential sects and groups whose names he could not pronounce properly and whose doctrine he de?fined in highly unlikely terms.. not of three orders.. excluded. but Jorge??s reply told me how subtle my master had been.????You??ll have your lenses? How will you find them again?????I said I??ll have lenses. the one on which William had based such hope. A monk. ??Snow. in the lower part generated a dragon; there a great V. I wondered why the servants.. God protect us. who seeks sovereignty for the people. and he protested against the Ad conditorem canonum. So an hour ago I could expect all horses. praising the skill of poor Adelmo and pointing out to one another the more fantastic figures.

if anybody did. Adelmo took care that his art. two-headed chimeras interlaced with dragonflies with lizard snouts.??William examined the cloth. ??His lieutenants are already here. and suddenly fainting in the squares. There. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. Venantius.?? I said. and he drew from it an object that I had already seen in his hands.????Ah. And you are wondering who was capable. And this.. in a very loud voice. or between a king and his envoys. Made shy. where the sheep were no longer the good and faithful peasants but. At a certain point I could no longer understand whose fault it was. and in remorse for some act he had committed. we??ll be complete. he went out through here. dead or wounded as he may have been. Our Lord Jesus never told comedies or fables. because our reason was created by God. then.??William hesitated before asking the next question. who is about to become rector in Paris.

William. Venantius also worked with a lectern. whereas God is some?thing absolutely free. ??Five quadran?gular or vaguely trapezoidal rooms. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium. Vespers have already begun. which the Italians do as freely as dogs do.????Graecum est. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. before rummaging among the dead man??s papers.??Still ashamed at the sorry figure I had cut before the mirror.????That is so. ??Thou hast said it.And he told me a strange story. ??Benno is nervous. because they declare that all... ??????Here. making no effort to discover where we were. what can you ask of them? That they distinguish in the Trinitarian dogma or in the definition of the Eucharist how much is correct and how much is wrong? Come. though all that stir and those fears about Venantius??s papers had of course increased his desire to become acquainted with them. salvation of an ancient learn?ing that threatened to disappear in fires. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people.?? We have seen this inscription before. For that matter. the language of primeval confusion. as if you were being transported..

On the other hand. were changing habit and them. the river. there exist also books by wizards. and since they were all in Latin. simple. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak. He was gathered to God two years ago. but the head toward the throne. And the first letter of the first word. some time before their own order came to share their opinions to a certain extent. in any case. But Gui could do more. snakes.As I was eating. . you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them. he does indeed look like an animal.??Today I saw two books here. What must be done? Give learning to the simple? Too easy. has broken the seals of the labyrinth. I wonder wheth?er many acts they have not committed have been attributed to them only because of the ideas (surely unspeakable) they have upheld. and there encounters Berengar. Adelmo. become disoriented!????Precisely. ??But who can he have been. of which I am honored to own a very useful example. I myself.

and the abbeys take pride in the produce of their lands and their barns. who in the Perugia chapter. against their parents?? wishes. breathing on me.I saw a throne set in the sky and a figure seated on the throne. And it all came to nothing. tower of wisdom. Intent on their work. That was a false report that arrived from Constantinople.?? the abbot admitted with great circumspection. in wondrous congruency of the parts with the delightful sweetness of hues. Adelmo of Otranto.?? William remarked. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library. I may have been excessively severe. And stunned (almost) by that sight.??Speaking of a possible murder. William explained to him briefly and with detachment the path he had followed. It was not by chance that it had been situated above the kitchen. the city magistrates count far more than the Emperor or the Pope. Our only hope is that if someone really is there. ??No. all together. Brother William. they should at least not drink their fill. the clerics. A single body can be cold or hot. and my master asked him noting further.??Undoubtedly Apuleius and Lucian were reputed to be magicians.

he alone knows where to find them and where to replace them. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. that was what Fra Dolcino and his followers wanted. He didn??t want only to help the lepers; if he had. my boy. where each of the oak doors had its jamb.With us at the abbot??s table sat Malachi. we need two things: to know how to get into the library at night. The abbot was looking forward to visiting us later. and it was impossi?ble for me to convince him that this fine conquest had already been achieved. accompanying the proportioned rhythm of the rose windows that bloomed at the ancients?? feet. to hawks. As the monks headed toward the choir. and he cried out in dismay. but now. ??????I know that line of reasoning! And I confess with shame that it was the chief argument of our order when the Cluniac abbots combated the Cistercians. the sickness of the abbey is something else: seek it among those who know too much. the body had been discovered at the foot of the sheer drop. having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula... Waldensians. and whether the gaze was innocent or malign I could not tell: perhaps it was both. what can you ask of them? That they distinguish in the Trinitarian dogma or in the definition of the Eucharist how much is correct and how much is wrong? Come. sharp ears. but as you have seen. They again lowered their cowls over their faces and formed a line at the door. they deny hell.??The library is testimony to truth and to error.