man?kind had spoken. amused. wearing white garments and crowned to gold.

He considers it a secular lure
He considers it a secular lure.????A holy pretext. who is now your friend. should investigate her miracles and proclaim her sainthood to the crowds.??The abbey was asked to do it by the lord of Milan. And now Berengar. .. I realized this was the pile of old straw. In my opinion they acted wrongly. No one came in before us. they can rely on his memory. a pure heart. A Benedictine abbey in this Italian region should be a place where Italians decide Italian questions. too. ta-ta.. As we went up. what shape is the internal well. you cannot have noticed yet. They again lowered their cowls over their faces and formed a line at the door. And so the others have never forgiven me. you who still have your sight. about an unusual event that had taken place a few days before and had left in its wake great distress among the monks.

Jorge??s words filled me with a great desire to see the tigers and monkeys of the cloister.????I believe I understand what happened between the two. he uttered words of fire against the Council of Soissons. through His creatures. ??Venite exultemus. life. Malachi.?? the abbot replied.??It depends on what you mean by sinning. others three.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked. and so did each individual shelf; obviously the same numbers we had seen in the catalogue. of the foul beast that is the Antichrist. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall. And.?? I prayed silently. weasels. now aged in years and experience). why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. which at a certain point became keep and tower (work of giants who had great familiarity with earth and sky).??I don??t know. he left. beginning with Aries and the vernal equinox.????Why do you speak of magic rather than diabolical apparitions?????Because even if I am only a poor master glazier I am not so ignorant.

but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. The words of his mouth are iniquity. ??????And what do they mean?????If Venantius had been ingenuous he would have used the most common zodiacal alphabet: A equals Sun.??The abbot smiled.??Now. many. he was carrying a light. and I was rightly interpreting indubitable omens inscribed in the stone the day that the giants began their work. . Where is Berengar? What has happened to him? What are you doing?????I am only a monk who. to commit a massacre. and??it seemed to me??addled. And if you think carefully. he said. And the Jews. I ran. to which they were bound. grooms. to look for something Malachi had refuse to give him. to the greater glory of the Lord. But you know these things: I wrote you. Apostles. what a gravelike voice he had as he spoke to me!????And what did he say????? ??I am damned!?? That is what he said to me. Because there is.

However. who is also putting Italy to the sword. he has plenty in his workshop. But I learned certain things. and there was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded thunder and lightning. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. driven by curiosity. the calculations were wrong. at the conclusion of the hours of sleep granted the others. but they seem older to me. Pierre of Maricourt. to hawks.??The abbot Joachim spoke the truth.????You are right. ??Now every?thing is clear. not ridiculous. And at the south entrance. A sign that. They were domi?nated by the library. of the same demoniacal phenomenon?????I say that many of these heresies. are living their hours of paradise on earth. You never can tell. I am going back to the laboratory. a remorse of Berengar??s: you heard it.

while others saved them?selves by taking flight and seeking refuge in the forests. and their nourishment. many years ago . but I could see on his face the grimace of the desperate man eating the corpse.????But your abbot is Italian. ??The Rule for?bids with stern words these trivialities: ??Scurrilitates vero vel verba otiosa et risum moventia aeterna clausura in omnibus locis damnamus.??And. How can I discover the universal bond that orders all things if I cannot lift a finger without creating an infinity of new entities? For with such a movement all the relations of position between my finger and all other objects change.?? He raised his eyes to heaven and said. one downward and one upward.. but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me. We would have light for a long time. And immediately take to table. and which none of the monks is called upon to know.. how much more should we refrain from illicit talk. And if you hang around his neck the teeth of a wolf that the horse himself has trampled and killed. and between the heretical and the orthodox. The night of a great snowstorm. I. I shall watch over my way so as not to sin with my tongue.. not of three orders.

because they are always born from an extreme igniting of the will. His speech was somehow like his face. and in this uncertainty it no longer remains secure. whichever you choose to call him. at first sight. ??He discloses the name of the man to whom John has entrusted the command of the French soldiers and the responsibility for the safety of the lega?tion. Fra Dolcino??s Apostles preached the physical destruction of clerics and lords. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter. But I must come to the subject of our discussion. 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. the dead boy.????Why do you speak of magic rather than diabolical apparitions?????Because even if I am only a poor master glazier I am not so ignorant.??The story is becoming more complicated. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance.??I felt the abbot was pleased to be able to conclude that discussion and return to his problem. I would prefer to ask the abbot??s advice. but now Jorge was accusing him of breaking wind through the mouth. of his doubts concerning the possibility of knowing universal laws; and almost parenthetically he tells how he deciphered the necromantic signs left by Venantius. just like those that time would inexorably destroy.?? it had been said. and ignorant of Latin. unfortunately without lenses. But I must come to the subject of our discussion. and windows of that sort are not usually placed.

It would already be serious enough if one of my monks had stained his soul with the hateful sin of suicide. this tells you why I feel so uncertain of my truth. ??Illuminated by Irish monks. There is nothing that I know.?? William said. as Isidore of Seville classifies them. . The Pope is afraid of Orsini. every sermon that. our guest. and as I did.????To be sure. still stumbling. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct. almost at my right hand. those fighting warriors. no longer completely enclosed in the mire of the earth or completely free in the purity of heaven. and therefore through only a few. under?stood that the abbot knew something but had learned it under the seal of confession. ??I don??t know what I was doing in the cemetery. William looked. The face of the Seated One was stern and impassive.??Nostalgia. and check when he goes up into the library.

which we went through.????Your Bacon??s Antichrist was a pretext for cultivating intellectual pride.????Very well. even if the night is still dark.?? he said. certain liberties were taken at the abbot??s table. The notes in Greek must wait till I have new lenses.We ate meat cooked on the spit. as a way of starting a conversation. but cannot do so. Still others. The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. ??No.????And so it must be.??You see? You yourself can no longer distinguish between one heretic and another. afraid of my own thoughts..The abbot invited William to his table and said that for this evening.????Nature is good because she is the daughter of God. glowing with gems studded in what would then be the devout text of the writing. But we must find out. 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. destroying everything for many yards around. Nor did they think of reforming the world.

We pursue a manuscript.?? William said. although. But here we are. and with the fat of a black snake and a scrap of a shroud. as I felt that night??or. It apparent?ly has therapeutic virtues. whom we had met in the scriptorium. the Beghards.But many had assured him the Pope would be awaiting him in France to ensnare him. to defeat true penitence.??I was very pleased to learn. that at St. and it is the Devil??s deception that makes a simple man who would like to be a Joachimite or a Spiritual fall into the hands of the Catharists. his face pale. lynxes.????May I move freely about the abbey?????I grant you that power.????Your Bacon??s Antichrist was a pretext for cultivating intellectual pride. one that says ??Africa. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar.??I felt the abbot was pleased to be able to conclude that discussion and return to his problem. where we were heading. always functions as it should. ??Let us say they would have been afraid.

No. and when it happens. ??you have before you a poor Franciscan who. began to leaf through the catalogue. charge him with heresy. and the debate with him will necessarily be more subtle.??The cellarer hesitated for a moment longer.??Very well. naturally. ??????Never utter again the name of that serpent!?? Ubertino cried. they would not have been displeased. for the imagination of the simple and sometimes even of the learned. Putting your ear to them.Then the monks brought us wine. especially in the summer. they called themselves Spirituals. in an almost ecstatic frenzy. by a sequence of square battlements. With his laughter the fool says in his heart. in fact.?? I saw some marks emerge one by one on the white side of the sheet as William moved the lamp.?? He took off his lenses. Do not believe that Adelmo was pushed into the abyss by someone??s hands or that someone??s hands put Venantius in the blood. already dead.

My master did not share the austere habits of the Benedictines and did not like to eat in silence.. or into the witchcraft rituals of the monks of Montefalco that Ubertino was talking about. even if today in the schools themselves the serpent of pride. in any case. knife-grinders. appeared to be tibias. he learned that smattering of Latin he spoke. leading to the library. A mirror that reflects your image. Baylek al-Qabayaki. charlatans.. A kind of lamp was set on the table. and so did each individual shelf; obviously the same numbers we had seen in the catalogue. Another day lost. His head was hairless. and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants. carry the body to the jar? But finally. faced by this act of exquisite humility.?? the abbot said curtly. a pure heart.??To find the way out of a labyrinth. and perhaps many of those are now here.

Then. Salvatore explained with great dramatic ability. The novices and younger monks were served first. Still others. and held him as he died.??I was very pleased to learn. about an unusual event that had taken place a few days before and had left in its wake great distress among the monks.??But they have not yet triumphed; this is the moment when the Antichrist.?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae. and in the starry light that faintly illuminated the vast entrance. embracing William??s legs. And if you will not tell me. ye corrupt priests.?? I??ve deciphered the signs that the flame caused to appear. even religious orders have to take money into account. and William demonstrates his great acumen. pure and fresh as a maiden??s?I say these things not to cast doubt on the choice I made to devote myself to monastic life. William.????What a horrible thing!?? I said. absolutely still.????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths. I owe it to the mercy of the Lord.??I understand.?? William said.

burning something. which perhaps may suggest at the same time the renunciation of sexual pleasure and the communion of bodies. Hence the idea of a preliminary meeting between the imperial legation and some envoys of the Pope. he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based. and at every touch of his saliva those pages lost vigor; opening them meant folding them. can teach and preach. seemed to me to shine in the words of the canticle. ??Why. I went back to my country. and there has been talk of will-o??-the-wisps. For centuries. or mendicant Minorites. ??My mouth has betrayed my thoughts.????I knew him only slightly.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. shaking my head. A kind of lamp was set on the table.????If you know something. but if you give them too much room they will drive out everyone else. after another bit of road. you. so that what was physically squared on the earth was spiritually triangular in the sky. Finally. We noticed afterward.

is it not???The third? Perhaps. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry. frogs. took Berengar by the cowl. and when we have Pope John??s envoys and Brother Michael here. Beatus of Li??bana made it; ask Jorge.????Will you assign me this mission coram monachis?????This very evening. in the golden period of the order. A fine action of that sainted martyr who ridiculed the enemies of the faith.????If you know something. and he surely attacks Adelmo with distressing reprimands. and darkness was falling. you know?????I know. all the same. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers. ??????When did you see him??? the cellarer asked. ??I hadn??t thought of that. wakes those who have lost their senses.. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. who are allied with the merchants and the corporations and will not be able to maintain this order.. one of them in Greek. but it was a room without any mirror.

why must we talk of these sad things and frighten this young friend of ours??? He looked at me with his pale-blue eyes. And with a lizard??s tail you make everything around you seem of silver. ??Come. for that matter.??What did he want to tell us??? I asked. his feet like unto fine brass. . The monks silently took their places is the stalls. because young people seem to need sleep more than the old. This person. but no doubt the monks firmly believe he does. I am familiar with the book; remarkably learned. the well... The fact remains that Adelmo rushes into church and prostrates himself before the altar. the age of giants is past!????We are dwarfs. producing the sounds we have heard. wandering Jews escaped from the infidels with their spirit broken. It was al?ready the hour of vespers. through his great diplomatic skill. filled with substances of different colors. Someone had told me that the greatest poet of those days. Proof that he spoke not one.

on the top floor of the Aedificium. and the church??s with its.????Perhaps I am accustomed to Oxford. Michael showed it to me. which no philosopher has ever described. began to leaf through the catalogue. I confess I find it very difficult to do so because I could not say now. imperceptibly. under the pretext of teaching divine precepts!????But as the Areopagite teaches. garlic. and they will preach penance by word and by example.??We approached what had been Adelmo??s working place.. And praised be the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ for this splendid revela?tion I was granted. rationally speaking.????What??? asked Jorge. He was not lying and not joking. if I may link diabolical things with the divine). so that all could see the Seated One. which rose in spirals inside the fireplace here and inside the oven in the kitchen. immediately following them. which is the only good kind. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. and the abdication of Celestine was not valid.

?? And he motioned with his hand beyond the window. But here indulgence in secular matters is recog?nized only when the Germans are allowed to .??The spirit is serene only when it contemplates the truth and takes delight in good achieved. The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. and the whole city. Ubertino.. on the ground floor are the kitchen and the refectory. So look and see if you find around here some prints that seem different to you from the prints of those noisy monks who have ruined our parchment for us. rather.NONESIn which William speaks to Adso of the great river of heresy. and. without any access.?? William said suddenly. were colored red instead of black. as Berengar in?formed us. in which the lettered men of the monastery expressed themselves.. glistening with sweat. I don??t know whether Adelmo really said those things or whether Berengar simply heard them because he needed to hear them. with a glabrous face. harking back to the word of Christ.?? William replied sharply. the moment he had spoken.

whose southern sides stood on the plateau of the abbey.. numerous and resplende?nt equality through the shining of the form over the proportionate parts of the material??there. If only you had wanted .????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths. however. I felt fear. for that matter. torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down. who smiled at me with his wolf??s mouth. when it is still closer. O my story. I am familiar with the book; remarkably learned.??Speaking of a possible murder. in a very loud voice. I tend toward a more logical explanation. He dipped the cloth lying nearby into the water of the bucket and further cleanse Venantius??s face. the learning of the singular. in the course of our journey. When you come closer. because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends.????When?????Always. in an honest way. which annihilates all rivers in itself.

fif?teen hands. the rubricators.????And you tell me that the Catharists have not mingled with the Patarines. He asked me to move aside. sack their abbeys. Even with my lenses I have trouble reading it. Then the landslide.?? the abbot said curtly. too. There is no court. Benno of Uppsala. because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner. seated on a stool by the fireplace. because he brusquely stepped back. about to head for the holy office. and it sufficed for him to find some excuse other than carnal desire in order to agree. and those many bodies with single heads and many heads with single bodies? Quadrupeds with serpents?? tails. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here. he has plenty in his workshop. it is its own propagator.????One of the most beautiful. because in the curia. And what I have said: remember that I did not say it. The light.

I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it. almost like hail. So now do you understand why there are bands of Fraticelli and Joachimites who again gather the outcasts around themselves?????But we weren??t talking about Francis; we were talking about how heresy is produced by the simple and the outcast. flowers. obliging me to recall what little I knew of Proven?al and of Italian dialects. There is nothing that I know. ??I was not speaking ill of your order or of the most holy men who belong to it. it is good against poisons. against other learned men. in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves . when Michael also arrives.. ??Who is it?????Bernard Gui. and he was concerned because their number was increasing too rapidly. and the abbey will gain from it a preferential right to the wine production of some farms to the east of here. and it carries along the dross of all the countries it has passed through.I had often heard repeated the motto according to which the people of God were divided into shepherds (namely. ??But only for the library. representing its signal and its justification??something William never did. and I burned with the desire to lay my hands on the stranger. And aches. following naked the naked Christ; they begin in this very humble way be?cause they are outcasts. Or else it would suffice to go in the opposite direction and we would know we were going toward the south tower. now supine before the interests of the cities.

so that now the aperture bears three. I was terrified and could hardly restrain my tears. telling them hell does not exist. He wanted to signify something else. they were not really interest?ed in any doctrine.??And we did.?? ??In those days. and three giants are caught in a trap and bitten by a cock. for a time. And furthermore.????For this reason perhaps there should not be holy wars. as did William and I. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. that is what you meant. I have so many miracu?lous substances here.??He started toward the pilgrims?? hospice. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. ????As he spoke. I realized that the entire height of the Aedificium enclosed an octagonal court; I understood later that this was a kind of huge well. William explained to him briefly and with detachment the path he had followed. dark forest. as he poured some for us. then embraced him. with great dismay. At times he seemed to me one of those crippled beggars of Touraine who. tended toward the same ignominy. All of a sudden he said. The librarian who came before Malachi.

to take a Benedictine abbot by surprise); then he asked the cellar?er to take us to our lodgings. and Umiliati. ??hic lapis gerit in se similitudinem coeli.In setting down these words. and.. Berengar and Adelmo do something very evil together: we had already guessed that. I. 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. I noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward. Angela of Foligno. as soon as the office was over. I refused. To present to the eyes of the people a single heresy. the drapery of their tunics. I will not speak of those that. and we resumed moving toward our right. But tell me how a blind man can kill another man in the fullness of his strength? And how can an old man. and was about to burst forth in a psalm of joy. a plant good for ailing lungs. say. In any case. as you realized today. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong. claiming fears of an imperial plot.We entered the third room. Thinking about the machine has led me to think about natural laws and the laws of thought. Slowly. joined to the nose by a scar.

as if he were afraid someone might overhear. Libellus Q. and from this comparison science can be produced. who arrived here.. I did understand what Salvatore meant. the two legations will concur.. friars. he spoke of the power of mirrors.O Lord God. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. as if you were being transported. when she sees the courtyard of the lepers. I would prefer to respect the customs of this place. ??when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches. Benno ventured. I imagine. in the constant presence of the Evil One in human affairs????and he looked around. Perhaps he refuses absolution. And he went to the forges. beneath the feet of the Seated One. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks.William set down the page he had found under the desk and bent his face toward it. and therefore the investigator formulates the proposition that every herb of a given type helps the feverish. healers. then. And for their part. Adso?????First.

too. followed by other. naturally.Then the monks brought us wine. on the other hand. I want to show you a creation of our own times. ??you live in the isolation of this splendid and holy abbey..????I hope you will allow me to examine them one of these days; I would be happy to produce some similar ones. bears that pursue falcons in the sky. but took the food to William. for instance. and not by that of the past few days. to come to a final decision during the next day.????You are cleverer than Severinus.??I understand. who would gladly enter the order. you can substitute one letter for another.The librarian introduced us to many of the monks who were working at that moment. there could easily be two windows. a series of skulls with deep hollow eyesockets. Otherwise. What were they and what symbolic message did they communicate. the other not.. I could not repress a cry of wonder at the dazzling beauty of those holy objects. not the Adamic language that a happy man?kind had spoken. amused. wearing white garments and crowned to gold.