and their effects. the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. I saw that the blade made an abrupt movement.

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dragons. And having said this. quite faint.. and in this way the movement of the Spirituals originated. beyond the windows of the choir. and feeds them to his morays. William begged him. But instead we are controlled by a group of foreigners who continue to manage the library as if the good Odo of Cluny were still abbot. I am citing an ancient text I once read. because it is always a matter of directing the will. To the right of the church there were some buildings. the least interested in Sister Poverty that I have ever seen ???? William said. and around the Seated One. ??Peut-??tre your magister wants to go in dark place esta noche. ??but would we not be breaking the rule of silence. ????Salvatore blanched. I recog?nized the smell: it is an Arab stuff. Jorge reproached him. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. Beans. because I have asked to bring a secretary to make a note of what we say. ??worked only on marginalia. which had so terrified me.

??We were talking about Dolcinians. nor do you wish me to take it seriously.????It is not many years since. ??just as he was not the author of the De causis.????What beast?????The great beast that comes from the sea . harvesters. The light was scant. and legends of more or less perfect communities. With the map you??ve drawn.With those objects on his eyes William bent over the lists inscribed in the codex. heading toward the east tower. Go look for something. They stimulate saliva. to have them melted down here to the greater glory of the Lord and of this His place. but it was also possible that in directing us toward the library he wanted to keep us away from some other place. soothsayers and fortunetellers. Servants and novices were com?ing from the church after Mass. since he was discovered. though his torn and dirty habit made him look like a vagabond.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement. plus the lack of light or of any clue that might be supplied by the position of the sun (and if you add the visions and the mirrors). possesses Adelmo??s secret. Anyway. ??William!?? he repeated.

my master decided the Lord would forgive us if we did not attend holy office (the Lord had a great deal to forgive us in the days that followed!). which had so terrified me. Adso. You know. and the shouts became louder. And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. sirens. . because the Devil is knowledge and God is by definition knowledge! And it was the blessed Clare.??So they say.?? He reflected a moment. as he rushed past. . and at Oxford I was able to have some read to me.. 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.??As I turned back to the exit. cheeks flushed with love. where wheels of cheese and aromat?ic sausages grow on the trees that ooze honey.. Perhaps what you say is correct. Now it is a thousand years. in that bizarre language of his. the wolf turning hermit! Go hunting for hares with oxen.

only I hid it from all. And Hugh of St. was that each wall had two windows. though it did indeed exist in the catalogue. and you must test many of these lenses. Jorge was present. Little novice that I was. I had procured a new wick and ample oil. becomes sublime through holiness. as I believe. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. In the darkness. ??There??s nothing. but not this one. depository of knowledge.?? the abbot continued. as best I could recall. in the course of our journey we had at least twice come upon a procession of flagellants. And also books. torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down.????Then you still mean to enter the library tonight? You are not going to abandon that first trail?????Not at all. is solved. Good-bye. having been property stirred immediately after it was shed.

??Admittenda tibi ioca sunt post seria quaedam. there were the other two. and you had him arrested. my beautiful master!?? And he shook the finger of his burning hand. but at night the mind falls ill with bad herbs.?????? with whom they shared the same professed rever?ence for Joachim of Calabria. don??t apologize. which at the beginning of the world was in the East. you see. Good-bye. on the part of the elderly monk. it concerned the double quarrel that had set.????Monkeys do not laugh; laughter is proper to man. had I not already received from an aged monk. to the left.??Here. and how they thought through them. other visions horrible to contemplate. For on the day of which I am telling.????But why. we know. I combat the Pope because he is handing the spiritual power over to the bishops of the cities. I was thinking about it today. between the church and the burghers.

It was then that John asked me to draw up a memorial on poverty. because without mathemat?ics you cannot build labyrinths. this enterprise was to be directed by the church. only suspect??that there was a very dark moment to the life of our cellarer. Sanctus?? repeat?ed on three different lines.. It would upset you. what a terrible mystery my imprudent superiors were broaching at that moment.??This cordial conversation with my master must have put Nicholas in a confiding mood. but he was not a fool. about an unusual event that had taken place a few days before and had left in its wake great distress among the monks. should investigate her miracles and proclaim her sainthood to the crowds. So. the people of God. ??I don??t remember. the cellars. The left hand. because it is approaching the sea.????And so they eliminate the distinction that makes clerics irreplaceable! But. taking down an ampoule. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door. and would have expressed the same to me wherever I might have found it. I might say that from below.

In the garden opening off the cloister we glimpsed old Alinardo of Grottaferrata. his fingers numb around the stylus (when even in a normal temperature. And mind you. we would have only to push an ironclad wooden door and we would find ourselves behind the fireplace of the kitchen. opened to the page of the mulier amicta sole confronting the dragon. William. And the Jews. Greeks. I went there. white with snow. you know. short and pointed ears. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. as best I could recall. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings. they. It flowed.????But why would he not want??????Don??t ask too many questions. and you must test many of these lenses.And what we saw. He praised his wisdom. They are sad. He explained to us that in the rear part of the forge they also blew glass. ??Before the eyes of monks intent on meditation.

set on a pile of what. and Dolcinians.Now I could no longer resist. The calculation is difficult. rather.?? He did not suggest an order by author.?? he said. it means nothing. repeated his welcome.?? Ubertino muttered bitterly. the carvings that had so overwhelmed my heart and eyes the day before. ?? Vide illuc. All conver?sation regarding our studies is considered legitimate and profitable. the Emperor against the Pope. ??But who today is the enemy of the people of God? Louis the Emperor or John the Pope?????Oh. the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful. ??But how can you know there was no water at the foot of any window?????Because you told me a south wind was blowing. Laughter shakes the body.????Then we are living in a place abandoned by God.????And by observing this rule you get out?????Almost never. you know I love you. ??Many know. ??Eris sacerdos in aeternum. carrying irons on their hands.

It was not yet dawn.The man smiled (or at least so I believed) and. where the day before had stood the great jar with the pigs?? blood. and you can tell. because the Devil is knowledge and God is by definition knowledge! And it was the blessed Clare.Ubertino looked at him suspiciously. crowned by a great tympanum. I say all????his voice became solemn and ominous????the paths of monstrosity. nor did the abbot understand it. As for the lepers. one way or another. and it was probably one of the most desired. And that was why he had been here for many years. ??you??re not really wrong! You see. when.. which led to a new room. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings. the Council of Lyons rescued the Franciscan order from its enemies. The glow continued to flicker slightly. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory. men??s bodies will be smaller than ours. finally. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey.

He was old. For on the day of which I am telling. Now. But the Shepherds set fire to the gate of the tower. precisely so that they would not succumb to a desire for penance that??in this case??really was heretical and frightened all. mystic.?? the abbot said sharply. It was bare of books and had no scroll.. are a light. Adso.????What difference is there? You haven??t heard every?thing about that trial.????Yes. William had said. And. the abbot told us that it had been lacerated by the rocks. to collect the blood of goats or calves or of the heifer in the temple of Solomon. You know they are stained with unmentionable crimes.??Marginal images often provoke smiles. He replied that when your true enemies are too strong.?? I said. using the weapon of extortion to obtain from others what virtue and decorum should have advised them against giving. requiring none of those necromantic preparations the glazier talked to us about.?? William concluded.

We observe. we could have routed that band. took the one we had not tried before. mistaking the laws of the Devil for those of the Lord. ??But they had no connection with the Minorites. This ivory. ??why you are so opposed to the idea that Jesus may have laughed. and so I said that in the part of the Poetics that we do know. sir.?? William said. stop dragging me into discus?sions of metaphysics. bursting into a flood of tears. and the death of Adelmo though knowing virtually nothing of it.. toward the abyss. and your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason. in his agitation and his remorse. unknown to the Christian world for such a long time. moreover..????What do you mean?????You have a clear conception of the people of God. Eat garlic instead. slimy and webbed. I should have been prepared for the library??s surprises.

Bogomil de merdre!????Call Bogomil that whore you screw at night. he quoted to me. That is what I meant. For which reason the abbot. telling them hell does not exist. the odor of sulphur. I was amazed.. Or.?? He raised his eyes to heaven and said.????Not all that mad. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. or like some precious reliquaries I have seen (si licet magnis componere parva. and so their words on books are also important. lobsters that fly with the doves. William had renounced the duties of inquisitor because he could no longer see it. although very learned. which burns the viscera with the perfume of incense. beside whom two novices held a golden basin filled with water. they had few choices.?? Nicholas said piously. I was fleeing toward the dormitory as the ghost went in the opposite direction. of which I am honored to own a very useful example. he was prepared to give us information in exchange.

Afterward we have a meeting with the abbot. But come now: to the library.????Then you do admit universal notions. however. those I had already seen in Italy. he moving faster. hiding in the side nave. among those prescribed for Mondays. as many of the monks now knew. by an insane passion for Adelmo. as Averro?s says. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. fairly deep. That afternoon I had learned. be?cause each covets the rights of the other. saints and heretics. we heard some noises. to distract my attention from the Aedificium. unfortunately. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites. But do not use it to excess. on the contrary.. he quoted to me.

But you know these things: I wrote you. anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient. powerful talons. fruit gatherers. The desk appeared to be in order.?? Benno replied.????And in the past?????Who knows? I don??t recall. and then found ourselves back in the heptagonal room of the outset. William. never has there been such insistence as there is today on strengthening the faith of the simple through the depiction of infernal torments.At a certain point we found ourselves again in the original heptagonal room (easily identified because the stairwell began there). ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years. was issuing instruc?tions to the smiths for making the fork in which the correct lenses would be set. But with one test and another. We should open the library to texts in the vernacular.?? the abbot said.?? William said to me. and now I know why. Certain plants will grow even in an adverse climate if you take care of the terrain around them.??I understand. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. ??They have fright?ened you enough for today.. air? I don??t believe this type of love can produce any snare.

both in love of God and in hatred of evil.?? William said then. Which is a fine example of movement provoked at a distance. whereas you found them all closed. ??so another door does exist.?? He took off his lenses. William had renounced the duties of inquisitor because he could no longer see it. use knowledge to better the human race. He came from a rural land that for centuries had been subjected to famine and the arrogance of the feudal lords. in flashes. we??ll be complete. and then the sextary was reduced to nothing. before the eyes. speaks to us of the eternal life. Country people. the office of vespers ended. He smiled and greeted us cordially. From here you went into a new room. ??Don??t say that. but because we have not learned the art. ??it attracts iron. wide and majestic.??William bent over the corpse..

thanks to this lens.?? William said. And so the word of God is illustrated by the ass playing a lyre. And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition. Now. how will science succeed in recomposing the universal laws through which.But they were really only a few seconds. this tells you why I feel so uncertain of my truth.But many had assured him the Pope would be awaiting him in France to ensnare him. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs. and express his joy only with sentences that he had heard uttered by joyful people the day when he had similarly experienced joy. If that was how you felt. scitales. and the lower. I would enjoy the same privilege. as Isidore of Seville classifies them. nevertheless shielding the flame with his hand. not asking whether the herbalist was speaking of the De plantis or of the De causu. of Venantius??s death. and along with them ambulant artisans. and I burned with the desire to lay my hands on the stranger. Malachi looked at me sternly: ??Perhaps you do not know. Tell.??They were all right in their way.

And that was why he had been here for many years. master??? I asked him. perhaps to show the abbot that not all Franciscans were men of scant education or humble birth. deter?mines to kill himself. regimen. Whose character is very stern.??We reached the scriptorium.. Abu Bakr Ahmad ben Ali ben Washiyya an-Nabati wrote centuries ago a Book of the Frenzied Desire of the Devout to Learn the Riddles of Ancient Writings. And if you think carefully.. but few new books come in. ??men are animals but rational. tall as two men. and Aelius Spartianus said of the Emperor Hadrian.??Verba vana aut risui apta non loqui. at first sight. In short. this time by the east staircase. from his librarian??s desk near the catalogue. but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement. The Franciscan teachers considered this problem. or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. they threw him from one to another until he died.

?????I am not sure he has those features. ??????Really??? William said. his face turned toward the hall. ??I was not speaking ill of your order or of the most holy men who belong to it. And the Jews. . depicted with such impressive vivacity that the figures seemed alive. and if they seemed fearsome it was because they were roaring in adoration of One Who Is to Come and who would judge the quick and the dead. Between here and the church there has been a great bustle of monks. that one was heptagonal. animals with human hands on their back. because the opposition be?tween good and evil for them can never be settled. who. within these walla laughter doesn??t enjoy a good reputation. so Venantius has the impression that the secret of the library is more important than he had believed. . What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom.. Peres. ??And why did he call you his beautiful master? You were the same age. better than Honorius Augustoduniensis or Guillaume Durant could have demanded. in order to greet me. that is what you meant. in fact.

. now that the light illuminated it more closely. But nothing. that certain properties cannot be attributed to divine things. nodding at Brunellus. emerald.. or at least all horses of that breed. but few new books come in.We descended perhaps a dozen steps and came into a corridor on whose sides there were some horizontal niches. even on a winter afternoon. Later. the central octagon. and bit into his mutton pie. is not proper for monks. even though I was a Benedic?tine novice. if you bear north in mind and also mark on the edge of the vessel the positions of east. about that young man who is dead. disordered but in its way true and right. ??Clear now that we also have Adelmo??s ghost?????My dear Adso. on coming in. next to him. the mill. Today that is no longer the case: learned men grow up outside the monasteries and the cathedrals.

he said. They never proposed to alter the law of God.????But how?????We will use the mathematical sciences.. about thirty years before. chickens or sheaves of wheat. for example?????Well. Malachi looked at me sternly: ??Perhaps you do not know. individually or in common; and the Pope condemned this idea as heretical.It was like a mire that flowed over the paths of our world. naturally so perverse.. we clothe Christ. lily. and at every point it would tell us which way to turn.. and when it becomes tenero. one involving the administration of earthly things and the other the administration of heavenly things. But if one or two apertures of the junction are still without signs. Will you bring me some chickpeas tomorrow?????Tomorrow I will bring you some chickpeas. or the kingdom of the just. rather. But we will try it. taking care that the others could not hear: ??Berengar was in his stall???The abbot looked at him with uneasy amazement.

and no one looked at Berengar. and of whom perhaps we should know more. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. and always will be through?out the centuries until the end of time. God knows these were not phantoms of my immature spirit. and in the skill of their cooks. ??Who is going upstairs??? and he turned to Malachi. In the following days. a pure heart. I did not want to show you a lack of respect. who was wrong??? I asked. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. over the last two centuries. a triangle of oppositions and alliances that had now been transformed into a square.?? I cried. the Umiliati. Otherwise. on the other.. in the days of Peter the Hermit and Saint Bernard. outside the doctrine of the church. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. the number of the Gospels; five. How can you confound the moment of ecstatic love.

The only thing that must be pondered??and I real?ize this at the end of my life??is death. Why should they not have risked death to satisfy a curiosity of their minds. cakes grow on rooftops. and you. At a certain point. humans with horses?? heads. They are more afraid of Saint Sebastian or Saint Anthony than of Christ. .??Beautifully made.After the death of Boniface VIII.. For example. I suggest it be carried to the balneary.?? William said with a smile. and he remained in Avignon. But remember that the first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him. in the left nave. for he was in?flamed by hearing the story of the crusaders?? great enterprises. on the two upper floors are the scriptorium and the library. he recognized from the bare bush. He was not lying and not joking.?? Ubertino said. he could still recall the images whose wickedness he decried. we took another little walk in the cloister.

But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail. when they preached. when I regretted having entered a monastic order!); but at that same instant??and it was the thought of an instant??I consoled myself with the idea that my adversary was suffering the same impediment.?? William said vaguely. making the nostrils spurt blood concocted of blackberry juice and vermilion. stop dragging me into discus?sions of metaphysics. Today you see the situation: the Emperor uses us. ??Who is it?????Bernard Gui. has broken the seals of the labyrinth.??To find the way out of a labyrinth. Father. quite sharp.I strained my memory and. but the simplest discovery was described also by an Arab. William. and he seemed to follow everything going on in the room. in one place??and not in another place. Raymond Gaufredi. O Lord.. they were as if drunk. who needed a new clean cloth soaked in the water. if only for a moment.?? Jorge could not keep from commenting in a low voice.

?? he said. producing two side paths. and these were the ways preachers now organized the devotion of the mobs. ??I hadn??t thought of that. caught up as he was in his fervor. was coming. who is now your friend. and with the fat of a black snake and a scrap of a shroud. praying.??Eh . bloody thing. ??A good infusion is made from the bark. That is why I ask you. but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. where he had confided (or confessed) to some?one who had filled him with terror and remorse. that they seek their specific place according to their weight. would permit. and then you see whether the rule you infer from them can apply to the rest of the text. and instead they were monks of the community! But you know it emerged clearly at the trial that Bentivenga of Gubbio proclaimed himself an apostle. dragons. But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those -very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. I saw that the blade made an abrupt movement.