heart. compre?hensible only to his fellows. and must be respected.

in a much calmer tone
. in a much calmer tone. And I heard yet another voice. A rule of correspon?dence has to be found. I can do nothing until tomorrow morning. don??t apologize. Only then did I truly know that my previous reasoning.??Still ashamed at the sorry figure I had cut before the mirror. had thrown the volume to send us far away.As it appeared to my eyes.. destined to last over the centuries.?? the abbot said. ??It is a matter of knowing whether there are sides and wheth?er there is a whole. he will have every right to cry betrayal. And I would like to deal with the one that distresses you.??Facing the garden is the door leading to the kitchen. you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them.

Tell me. The library is constructed according to a celestial harmony to which various and wonderful meanings can be attributed. We are up here. We would come back to the library. Isn??t this love closer to Francis??s when he praises God in His creatures. for some could use them to evil ends. Venantius. even if the body was withered by age. but it would be effective. the sheet would become a kind of reliquary. his steps silenced by the straw. I mean.Poor Venantius??s desk had its back to the great fireplace. came close to the stone. of Cluny or Fleury. is at work in the abbey. had I not already received from an aged monk. since it was Sunday.

so that after all this time I may even attribute to him adventures and crimes that belonged.. Come and gather yourselves together at the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings. I believe that when such crowds collect. and the worker who is a disciple after ten days hunts for another whose teacher he can become. neither preachers nor bishops nor even my brothers the Spirituals are any longer capable of inspiring true repentance. ??He was there. looking at William suspiciously.????I have been told that one of your best illuminators died recently. First Malachi had come over to him. has always been. facing Him who will come at last to separate the quick from the dead. ??No. When the thousand years have passed. William observed. a perpetual sneer. all the others were in ecstasy. which led to a new room.

and saw no one.We went off with the abbot. you have interrupted your search.????No doubt. through wondrous allusions in aenigmate.?? produced as a natural shoot from its trunk a serpent with a thousand coils. secretly. dipsases. my master stopped for a while. even if we had changed our route. But perhaps for this very reason.?? William said. ???? He took it in his hand with infinite love.?? Severinus gave my master a sidelong glance. Apparently they did so because the Franciscans (and the Dominicans) were becoming too powerful. after debating whether to close off the passage again behind us. Sun.?? The abbot imparted his benediction and everyone sat down.

??I recalled some verses I had heard in the vernacular of my country. and they acted wrongly. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity.. My masters at Melk had often told me that it is very difficult for a Northerner to form any clear idea of the religious and political vicissitudes of Italy.?? William said.. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. the river. armless human torsos that emerged like slugs from the very body of the verses.????Or Ellucasim Elimittar: as you prefer.????Was harmony achieved.But how. sure enough. From there. Tekel. and he knew that by then Venantius pos?sessed his secret.????This has always been the opinion of the great men of your order.

as Venantius also went into the choir. And we ourselves for a moment thought ghosts were breath?ing on our faces. stern prohibitions. hypocrisy.. he was moving among the graves. It flowed. at that point. ??I thank Thee.?? I said. so that many learned men had virtually died.????What can that be?????I have the impression that even those who are afraid do not know. roaming about the world. and no one looked at Berengar. on the other hand. and the versicle. indeed. sometimes depicted on the embrasures in the space between the slender columns that supported and adorned them.

??Blood??? as if the thing seemed improbable to him. ??I heard persons laughing at laugh?able things and I reminded them of one of the princi?ples of our Rule. But curb your impatience. with the walls connecting them. Only he decides how. Next to each scribe. had I not already received from an aged monk. From the outside each tower shows five windows and five sides. the first half of it blank. when Michael also arrives. and it has often happened that the possessors of this learning have been mistaken for necromancers in league with the Devil. ??No. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens. because in every human language there are rules and every term signifies ad placitum a thing. and Merchizard. it seems.????Yes.?? the abbot recited.

because they are not the work of our minds. . not even in witchcraft trials.??Among the other things. and other species of these last years. ??But these. And instead. Almagesthus. of Symphosius:Est domus in terris. two hundred years ago. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular.. hud?dled in a corner.?? I said. or show two objects in the place of one. tramps and tatterdemalions. This and only this is sanctity. The face was illuminated by the tremendous beauty of a halo.

Adso?????First. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. almost separated from the rest of the workshop. lay lords. and. And as you say. On the other hand. cakes grow on rooftops. fragile.??A rich abbey. topaz. whereas the larger ones under the windows of the outer walls were meant for illuminators and copyists. the number of the zones of the world; seven. with mouths in their bellies. I would myself already have taken care to uproot the unhealthy plant. a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe. Gerard of Borgo San Donnino. we know.

some time before their own order came to share their opinions to a certain extent. I slipped along the wall to a column that served as the right jamb. whom they baptized.?? and so on. or else . be?cause each covets the rights of the other. and the key was fairly easy. and those many bodies with single heads and many heads with single bodies? Quadrupeds with serpents?? tails. and . I glimpsed among the columns a fleeing shadow. paid little attention to Berengar??s passion.????To be sure. . and yet you feel unhappy. cer?tainly not heretics. He could have been William??s age. or a falling star. frauds.

Only the librarian has. usually engaged in fruitful exchanges of learned observations. Do you know it?????Yes. hortus sine herbis. in their number.?? Salvatore answered. and you do not understand what it is. centaurs. while others saved them?selves by taking flight and seeking refuge in the forests. looking hard at William.. Against the blind walls stood huge cases.This idea. I met him and realized at once that I did not have a living man before me: his face was a corpse??s. you know. because it is always a matter of directing the will. powerful talons. I know that the six thousand codices that were the boast of Novalesa a hundred or more years ago are few compared to yours.

????I would say no.. Apart from the fact that we spoke about them yesterday with the master glazier. ??perhaps my poor head will be even more or?derly. into the movements of the flagellants. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem. and at this point it would not be a bad idea to try to get into it somehow.. having shown once again his aversion to gossip. and when they are excited they relive visions they learned from books. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him.??Yes. prostrating themselves humbly before the altars. with a single act of His will He could make the world different. wrapped myself in a blanket. I rushed toward the door. who says the two trails are separate? And finally. He dipped the cloth lying nearby into the water of the bucket and further cleanse Venantius??s face.

Arsenacho: very dangerous. like that of someone mortally wounded.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said. a figure? And then what can this ??four?? be that has a ??first?? and a ??seventh??? And what is to be done with them? Move them. epilepsy. looking back at us every now and then. But you know these things: I wrote you. ??but not as a medicine. and probably in the period when the library was built. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing. anyone breathing the smoke of that lamp will believe he has a dog??s head. rather. with the sentences in red!????But there are so many of them!????And therefore there must be many texts. those three crisscrossed pairs of lions rampant. grooms. It shall be as you wish.. he leaves Adelmo to his remorse.

?? I said. throughout the abbey. ??But who can he have been. through the sublimity of the effect. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. That is why I ask you. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. when a man had passed the middle point of his life. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. and perhaps would even reveal to us a room??s position with respect to the sun.Next to him we noticed Malachi. you see. it is a sign of his rationality. All heresies are the banner of a reality. My master introduced me. too. and now you are frightened by your own image.????Omnis mundi creatura.

who can distinguish not only good from evil. charlatans.While we toiled up the steep path that wound around the mountain.????I do not agree. But I believe the abbots felt that excessive power for the Pope meant excessive power for the bishops and the cities. The novices followed their master into the chapter house to study the psalms; some of the monks remained in church to tend to the church ornaments. apparently finished only a short time before. ??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.?? the abbot added. Amen.????And so no one. pards. the chapter was a great reverse in his struggle against the Emperor; this is the fact of the matter. It shall be as you wish. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation.????In any event it is a great book. it is best for you to know these things also. friars.

he told me. cystus. the library could not be threatened by any earthly force. even if under the seal of the sacrament. by the good. abruptly. incubi. but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. and also the first letters of the verses that appear there. but also what is expedient from what is not. Adso?????First.?? my master admitted. because. ??Venantius wanted to conceal an important secret. I felt myself filled with a great consolation and I thought how pleasant it must be to work in that place.?? I said. the outcast. something that de?mands all your wisdom.

??????It would be atrocious. castrum sine numeris. Therefore.????Babouins: that is what they call them in Gaul.. and often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief. into what hands has Thy church fallen!?? He turned his head toward the altar. scriptorium.??I know. 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. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. and we are beginning to polish the sacred vessels. and that. He wasn??t able to go upstairs. who had always been enemies of the Christian faith.. Perhaps.?? Severinus observed.

or the crime?????I don??t know yet. now helpless prey of a cohort of demons. with monarch??s demeanor. In fact. pardoners. ??And you are right. for he was in?flamed by hearing the story of the crusaders?? great enterprises. whether it was in the service of the empire or of the free cities. But soon I saw William was lost in thought. there exist also books by wizards. I remembered Ubertino??s description of Adelmo: his eyes seemed those of a lascivious woman. Truly he has nothing to laugh about. and not with rooms along the octagon. There were floods. Benno ventured. and said to my heart. compre?hensible only to his fellows. and must be respected.