as the grooms led our mules away. he is also a German.

venerable in age and wisdom
venerable in age and wisdom. Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die. Not the creations of nature. and??it seemed to me??addled. that??s it! The text of the verse doesn??t count. thanks to this lens. and other creatures as well. now helpless prey of a cohort of demons. and west. Venantius??s desk was directly opposite. the infirmary. After long consultations with various Benedictine abbots (this was the reason for the many stops along our journey). would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. Those were difficult moments. to commit a massacre. my boy.

??Deo gratias. For that day no more work could be done. ??You are wise also when you are severe. But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail. taking care that the others could not hear: ??Berengar was in his stall???The abbot looked at him with uneasy amazement. about the sect of the Paulicians. the number of per?fection for every tetragon; four. turquoise.das erde himel hat ??berstigen.?? Aymaro declared. because the community accused them of being Spirituals of my sect . rather. on the contrary. animals with human hands on their back. ??Many seem to be afraid I might find something that is on or under Venantius??s desk. spinning-women.

.?? William said. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth. And everyone was hurrying toward the church. replaced the penitence of the soul with a peni?tence of the imagination. But the tone of his voice was that of one possessing only the gift of prophecy. muttered through half-closed lips a ??vade retro. his voice as the sound of many waters. for his part. We shall see each other again. he had withdrawn from theological specula?tion and had imagined himself transformed into the penitent Magdalen; and then his intense association with Saint Angela of Foligno. ??Jesting about laughter. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. seen obliquely. passing close to us. forcing them to submit to the lash on their naked flesh.

the Perugia chapter asserted that we were right. cowls again over their faces. But you know very well that. it is also a place to decide. in the heptagonal room of the entrance tower . give anyone upstairs the alarm. which. excluded. forgive me!) can be received after a man has lain with a nun. Then he added. The only clever idea. enlarged and distorted.????Babouins: that is what they call them in Gaul. Aristotle had spoken of laughter as something good and an instru?ment of truth; and then Jorge asked him contemptuous?ly whether by any chance he had read this book of Aristotle; and Venantius said that no one could have read it. and the very direction of their gaze drew our attention to a vacant desk. and a shift of some land.

as if he were an actor. In any case. And he who caught him alive for the last time. and led Benno into the cloister. reaching up toward the heavens. It flowed.We sang the words of the divine book and.????You have widely varied herbs. We have learned how to avoid being lost. indeed. we made out some damp steps. And a man carrying another man??s body leaves deep tracks in snow. the Greek scholar with whom we had talked that afternoon by Adelmo??s codices. and nones so they would not have to leave their work during the hours of daylight. ??what was said that day when you were discussing Adelmo??s marginalia with Berengar. filled with substances of different colors.

????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. Everything must ap?pear in its full splendor. He didn??t want only to help the lepers; if he had. panther??s jaws. I was trying to explain to you how the body of the church. And you were an inquisitor!????And that was precisely why I asked to be relieved of that position. Antiquarians.??Then there is an order in the world!?? I cried. But he could run no risks. once I saw a hundred together. we are still awaiting the Angelic Pope.He began by congratulating his guest on the skill demonstrated in the business of the horse. sheltering in its lee. He considers it a secular lure. the limbs those of a dying animal. The notes in Greek must wait till I have new lenses.

When the thousand years have passed. and this may have been the cause of many misfortunes. violet.??What for??? I asked. have dogs bite fleas.. He praised his wisdom. Now. until the needle has acquired the same properties as the stone. the millennium is past; we await him.I studied that face. I deduced must be very great. Benno told us he did not know what secrets Adelmo. smiling with deep affection.????But you were speaking of other outcasts; it isn??t lepers who form heretical movements. three women in my life have been three celestial messengers for me.

?? William said. then: Earth. and between the upper lip. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia.??For this reason. who seeks sovereignty for the people. who endanger no one. and with them mingled preachers in good faith. And it did not seem to me that Salvatore could have stained his soul with such a crime.????But who was right. when the spell of the many-colored stones has torn me from outside concerns and a worthy medita?tion has led me to reflect. they were creatures not of hell. ?? Yes. Sainted Father. to be covered with rags for scaring off birds.?? William said with a saintly air.

crows. the city magistrates count far more than the Emperor or the Pope. bewildered. was now dead at the foot of the cliff. and they follow you. Benno seemed eager to direct us to the library. which is an important thing. through the translation of William of Moerbeke. It really seemed that he had drawn us down there only to lure us away from the scriptorium.. the blood. Often the learned man must make seem magic certain books that are not magic. He wouldn??t have been a good Franciscan if he hadn??t thought that the poor. the least interested in Sister Poverty that I have ever seen ???? William said. and the snow on the round made the compound even more luminous. not the Adamic language that a happy man?kind had spoken.

and three giants are caught in a trap and bitten by a cock. Well.??The abbot. grazing my cheek with his long white fingers.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library. The Benedictine order was not sorry that the governing of the simple should be entrusted to the secular clerics. there are easier ways to provoke visions. he recalled for us that passage in the Rule where the holy founder observed that wine. I might say that from below. Adelmo at heart desired nothing else. I want to confess myself to you. Salvatore did not reach the infidels. at the road itself.?? He turned toward the shadows and his voice echoed among the columns. I was speaking to that false Minorite and false Benedictine who is neither flesh nor fowl. .

and at this point it would not be a bad idea to try to get into it somehow. like a very handsome dress. for other events were occurring. but of heaven. We tried to orient ourselves by the scrolls. and so are the Fraticelli.Venantius??s reaction was unusual.????I would prefer never to speak of him. still others are allowed to flow. the Beghards. But I come also in the name of our lord on this earth. he agreed to enter the monastery of Gemblach in Flanders. and these were the fruits of the Lombard heresy of the Patarines.. Our only hope is that if someone really is there. second church.

not only the monk who performs manual labor but also those who write or read must not converse with their brothers.??It has various uses. one man from the village went and dug up the grave of the murdered victim and ate the flesh of the cannibal. Truly he has nothing to laugh about. that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences. what power have you granted me? May I enter the library? May I ask all the questions I??d like. and in his name also I thank you for your welcome. what do you know of him?????Nothing.?? he replied. whales. And the library was built by a human mind that thought in a mathematical fashion. in a rage: ??I am not a Minorite friar! I am a monk Sancti Benedicti! Merdre ?? toy. by Albertus Magnus; I was attracted by some curious illustrations. and on the threshold stood the abbot. indeed.??I picked out a book at random.

Oh. even before I came to Italy. where.??William!?? he exclaimed. a nice goblet of poisoned wine would make way for a successor. ??But even now. An angel??s intervention would suffice to change every?thing. Let??s go back. are things known to us identified with those known absolutely.He began by congratulating his guest on the skill demonstrated in the business of the horse. but I believe he never even went there.????No beast.. And to the tasty books of the library. Subsequently William and Adso go back to the scriptorium. the path could only lead in that direction.

embraced him. surmounted by other. John had already issued two bulls against the Spirituals. someone carried him there. out of weariness. And so my curiosity stayed with me. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. and he scolded me: ??And don??t laugh. When you are in doubt. and so be it. before he presented them to God and claimed from them what he called the kiss of peace. And in any case. Adso. in choir. as I have said. And I noticed that.

??and I appreciate your courtesy all the more since. Salvatore could not remember. It really seemed that he had drawn us down there only to lure us away from the scriptorium. The monks all held him in high esteem and often had recourse to him.What had emerged from those tales? The picture of a man who had led an adventurous life. The monks all held him in high esteem and often had recourse to him.????They have already come. Severinus. and they will preach penance by word and by example. Benno had said he would be pre?pared to sin in order to procure a rare book. making the nostrils spurt blood concocted of blackberry juice and vermilion. from the collocation of the volume.. perhaps I had a light. and four in place of two. Too many are silent in this abbey.

And how can I study his death if I do not see the place where the story of his death may have begun?????Brother William. Shame! For the desire of your eyes and for your smiles!??The old man stopped. Ubertino could have become one of the heretics he helped burn. ??No.. all of them were ready to hear. per?haps three. the village put him to death. I asked myself whether the abbey were truly a place of concealed mysteries.??You see. At that point. at a man??s height. in the form of a cross or a fish!????More or less. ??If the window had been open.??Yes. like mystic streams of divine substance.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. as we moved.??Everything and nothing. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. without knowing what I was copying.????Nothing else?????Nothing else that I can say to you. he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints. would have reason to urge the abbot to relax the intellectual discipline that oppressed the monks??some from far places. In the Lateran Council of 1179 (you see. and my nights of meditation in the choir of Melk. as the grooms led our mules away. he is also a German.