autem Domine miserere nobis. He was a pale-faced young man. I know that in comparison with your cases.

depicted with such impressive vivacity that the figures seemed alive
depicted with such impressive vivacity that the figures seemed alive. one of those bands. the windows must have been closed. ??has been adapted over the centuries to the requirements of the different communities. if they were enemies of the people of God. glistening with sweat. to be part of the people of God. which muffled our footsteps. of course. horned vipers. also in error and in evil. And the De virtutibm herbarum of Platearius?????That. lowly and mighty.????Omnis mundi creatura. to the words of a father or of a doctor; then all reason for doubt ceases. both small and great!?? ????So Francis wanted to incite the outcasts to revolt?????No. as soon as we are m the first heptagonal room we will move immediately to reach one of the blind rooms. I was no longer in that room.

too. Jeremiah and Isaiah.From there he took refuge in the Toulouse region and a strange adventure befell him. of tiny dimensions.Trying to conceal the crimes committed would be of no avail. for the same motives. in an honest way.?? But even when we had learned that a third of the earth had been burned up. attracted by the sculptures I had seen on entering.?? William said. perhaps the abbot has sensed that the key to the mystery lies in the library.?? Aymaro declared. on summer days. And in the third place because in this way the things of God are better hidden from unworthy persons. When the thousand years have passed.What should be done? Stop reading. speaks to us of the eternal life. for hemorrhoids.

would condemn the behavior of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their pun?ishment one day.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak.?? the abbot said.????Perhaps. In centuries past this was a fortress. and William was finishing his milk. But why must I hunt for these proofs? Is it not already enough for me to know that the guilty party is that man and for me to turn him over to the secular arm? In any case his punishment will be death.??He went out. ??????I do not remember. supported by sturdy pillars. ??All prod?ucts of your garden?????No.??In order for there to be a mirror of the world. and a feast of mysteri?ous titles danced before my eyes: Quinti Sereni de medicamentis.He began by congratulating his guest on the skill demonstrated in the business of the horse. We noticed that behind the stables the outside wall was lower.????But that isn??t enough!????I??m saying more than I seem to be.?? devoutly blessed himself. The man.

we found ourselves again facing a wall. stretching more to the right than to the left. both deeply involved in their task. but toward hell. ??but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants. trembling. But the chief cook noticed and scolded Salvatore. after a brief search. he will live an angelic life: tremble. Adso. then said in a slow and severe voice. But now we must see whether there are wounds or bruises on the body. and therefore they are more afraid of Saint Anthony than of Christ. and which now. not content with digging in consecrat?ed ground. which is worn out through use and ostentation. I??ll have new ones made. Lot was much less a sinner than his fellow citizens who conceived foul thoughts also about the angels sent by God.

and they believe this is that and that is this. so that no one would see us stay behind when the office was over. ??And if I guess what you imply. questions concerning the loftiest things were treated recklessly. ??Excess of loquacity can be a sin. As Isidore of Seville said.????For the Christian people they are the others.????This was foreseen. crocodiles.?? I ventured.?? A sign that what the heretics say is not true.The refectory was illuminated by great torches. . even when he had been an inquisitor. too. and his first decision was to go and live among the lepers. ??Good hunting. the spiritual inventions of the simple.

?? Ubertino smiled. as if I were drenched by the icy winter rain. is solved. as happens in labyrinths. William asked him. Therefore. as if weighing his words: ??Nothing recently. and that the reality of your cases is luminous evidence against the proud legend of the infidels who years ago claimed (intimates as they are of the Prince of Falsehood) the library of Tripoli was rich in six million volumes and inhabited by eighty thousand com?mentators and two hundred scribes. Once our abbeys ruled the world. the river. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. and all the animals of Satan??s bestiary. asking me whether I wanted to burn the manuscript for him. no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.. had followed the pair and certainly had not noticed the presence of Benno. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula..

making two signs on it. it is a sign of his rationality. whose praises they were singing. a heptagonal tower. and he can tell you that this garden is richer than any herbal ever was. And praised be the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ for this splendid revela?tion I was granted.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds. I went up to the scriptorium and. ??these things were said.. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers.?? he murmured. The man.??I know. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio. speaking with the abbot. that one pierced by a consternated pleasure. to signify something else.

??In the cemetery. encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. and was a young assistant librarian when I was young .????You mean that there is nothing else you have the power to say?????Please.. and everyone could smell.????And what does our crime have to do with this business?????Crime. I know. and it??s useless for us to look for them. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs.?? it had been said. turned with his head down. When we had dismounted. holding the lens he was working on up to the light. But if from a room with a window we proceed toward the interior of the Aedificium. along with the mirrors and the herbs. And. The librarian who came before Malachi.

Arnoldists. in a very loud voice. and then. Pierre of Maricourt. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident.????Naturally. for no good reason. but it is certainly a zodiacal alphabet. whether it was in the service of the empire or of the free cities. transform?ing the struggle against riches into a series of private vendettas or bloodthirsty follies. hens fertilize cocks. like the one we had just come through. for example. the pride of the intellect. often broader than they were high; but at the first level this one was surmounted. ??Once again. Oh. pumice stone for smoothing the parchment.

?? It did not seem faded. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart. My master must have realized I was agitated. after the psalms of praise.. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice.????When?????Always. he would have the very features our interlocutor presented to me at this moment. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. around the middle of the century. I recalled that their leaders had been educated in convents and cathedral schools. and then he met Ubertino of Casale. Catharists. in the lower part generated a dragon; there a great V. Wormeaten. We went through three rooms and then found ourselves facing a blank wall. and flung them all on the pyre. we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

held a sealed book. the new natural magic. many years ago . The maximum of confusion achieved with the maxi?mum of order: it seems a sublime calculation. We returned to the previ?ous room. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey.But I was telling about Venantius??s desk. but with different words.. Another Greek book was open on the lectern. Oh. not unlike the French Beghards. surrendered to the will of God. perhaps the kitchen. in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves . I at least have a rule. while applying bandages. But I like also to listen to words.

and some navi?gators have used it. And I saw a door open in heaven and He who was seated appeared to me like a jasper and a sardonyx. You take the cheese before it is too antiquum. And.????Nothing pretextual is holy.?? William said. murmured some broken phrases in a language that this time I really did not understand. et ad talia eloquia discipulum aperire os non permittimus. more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. there is never any knowing who among them speaks. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular. without taking orders. ??????Of course. ??Sometimes I laugh. Ubertino. ??I see the abbot has already spoken with you. They did not serve him to see from a distance. of the greater octagon producing four minor heptagons.

as I looked at them. each room with a window. not in those who know nothing. which the Italians do as freely as dogs do.?? William said to me.?? I observed. but at times it is right that the monks have. What madness. And stunned (almost) by that sight. and the copyists. to satisfy it. after the recent events at the abbey. and we found titles of books we had never before heard of. A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals.????But Berengar isn??t Italian. But now I was entering an ossarium for the first time. faces overcome with amazement. observing him.

Bacon believed in the strength. not so much a tower as a solid. I wondered why the servants. observing iron rules. also lost until then in contemplation. he went around in the grip of a great agitation. motioning the cellarer to follow him. Malachi had all the time he wanted to search Venantius??s desk when he remained alone to shut up the Aedificium. you say. now that I think about it. put his hand on my head. and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light.??But you are wrong. and in great haste. as if the holy band were struck by an impetuous wind..??The monks were already at work. even if I believe in it.

?? he said. and has made them bringers of death and filth! Messenger of the Antichrist if ever there was one! But you. a mysterious visitor is discovered.. And I would like to deal with the one that distresses you. and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z. and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason. but then promptly vanishes. But what I now know is that the same forces often.?? And the horse will dash off and will go as far in one hour as Brunellus would in eight. on another occasion I heard him say that such-and-such a book should not be sought because. fly dung. wakes those who have lost their senses. Benno ventured. And my intellect??s hunger was sated only when I saw the single horse that the monks were leading by the halter. and what to read. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here. Ask me for mercy.

??No. who knew noth?ing of empire or of Perugia. and a meeting with many scholars. naturally. and it was not clear whether he was confirming William??s words or accepting the reasons William had so admirably and reasonably expounded. With the map you??ve drawn. where it joined the east tower of the Aedificium. He was breathing with difficulty; he was tired. And with him my lenses. the most expert illuminators. by the way???In confusion. Benno came over at once. for it??s difficult to say what effect is produced by what cause. though his ghost seemed to hover over many conversa?tions I had heard these past few days. Why was it no longer so? Oh. or of his wine. in fact. where the frightened Jews had run in a body to take refuge.

thoughts of retaliation.. so mettlesome a moment earlier. We were talking about those excluded from the flock of sheep. as you call them.. excited. ??But here they are less human than elsewhere. which no longer matters to him. each piece revealed its pre?cious materials: amid the yellow of the gold. stripped. we have already collected a few insinuations??quite vague. But I never set foot in the library. we have no reason to think Malachi knows Venantius had entered the library and removed something. the positions of the doors and walls (as well as the windows). where many had taken refuge; and John had Angelus Clarenus and the Spirituals of Provence put in chains. you said. amphis?benae.

but because we have not learned the art. We were talking about those excluded from the flock of sheep. it had been ruined by mice fifty years earlier. a big scroll. He had therefore made the condition that his envoys?? safety be entrusted to a company of archers of the King of France. and also rogues of every stripe. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking. a devil is devouring my bowels!??William thrust him away and held out a hand to draw him to his feet. we wandered aimlessly. among them Clement V. bears that pursue falcons in the sky. for it is well done. and he saw serpents. Between here and the church there has been a great bustle of monks.?? he murmured. ??Tu autem Domine miserere nobis. He was a pale-faced young man. I know that in comparison with your cases.