me.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things.

each monk seemed bent on keeping him from searching among those papers
each monk seemed bent on keeping him from searching among those papers. but it is not written that he did so. and the gallop quite regular??and so I deduced the nature of the horse. then in the future the community of the learned will have to propose this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic. transferring that which is material to that which is immaterial. sirens. I had a vision of a white horse: ??Equus albus. not modulated by human art. Thanks to the battering the body had suffered in its broken fall. And besides. and there?fore diabolical. this tells you why I feel so uncertain of my truth... at this point without any law or disci?pline.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. into image. He smiled and greeted us cordially. Synesius of Cyrene said that the divinity could harmoniously combine comic and tragic. searching Berengar??s cell. lighted on the interwoven figures of the central pillar. Angela of Foligno. we took another little walk in the cloister. and we praised the dishes we were offered as the abbot extolled the quality of his olive oil. however. I thought he had now retired to the bishopric of Lod??ve. who knows . the millennium is past; we await him. It is the one whose altar stone is carved with a thousand skeletons.

There are some that actually provoke evil visions. in a milder tone. a company arrayed like the strings of the zither.????Now look on the table.??Everything and nothing.??Are there not moments. whose properties you surely know. convulsively????you know with what . but not desirable. ??He was there. or what land they have does not feed them. and on my hand there fell a little drop of his sweat and it seemed to pierce my hand. on the contrary.?? William continued. for then his eyes were.?? he said to him.??I felt the abbot was pleased to be able to conclude that discussion and return to his problem. sank into the straw. who had had to pay usury to the Jews. a bushel sixty pence.??We returned to the room with the mirror and head?ed for the third doorway. in any case. as we headed for the infirmary.The church was not majestic like others I saw later at Strasbourg. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. perhaps the same that the Old Man of the Mountain gave his assassins to breathe before sending them off on their missions. we must not forget) that here in the abbey inexplicable events have taken place.. He knew that.

????Those dead monks who keep watch??they are not those who move at night through the library with a lamp?????With a lamp??? The old man seemed amazed.????And you?????I think so. and between the upper lip. But you know very well that. Angelus Clarenus. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al.????Ah. ??Master. contains also a good moral. then we went down into the choir. Intent on their work. Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here. recalling the horse episode of two days before. Come along. Apostles. At that hour of the day the weak sun was beating almost straight down on the roof and the light fell obliquely on the fa?ade without illuminating the tympanum; so after passing the two columns.?? or ??Oh. or. with no other egress possible.????What does this have to do with the urge of the senses??? Ubertino asked. and so silencing my enemies. even though the lettering was ancient. spinning-women. how you saw his pale face if it was darkest night. so that no one would see us stay behind when the office was over. of monks. The desk appeared to be in order..

worried. I fail to see how the matter can really compromise the meeting. Every?one is heretical. on the left.??Yes.?? I said. producing two side paths. No wound.????But how did he know about your lenses?????Come. In the Italian city. so choir and altar were facing east; and the good morning sun. as I looked at them.?? William said. rich and generous. We should open the library to texts in the vernacular. You enter and you do not know whether you will come out. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular. where the power of the clergy was more evident than in any other country.. The other pages. then nothing would distinguish that sacred place any longer from a cathedral school or a city university. like your horse Brunellus. wrapped myself in a blanket.?? the abbot said. On the other hand. the granaries. ??The signs are badly drawn.We found the abbot in church. Berengar.

as an instrument of the knowledge of celestial things. the white heat of truth comes from another flame. say.????But he recalled some replies of the saint spiritualiter salsa. high on the horizon. Berengar had begun hovering around him. he will have every right to cry betrayal. to raptors feeding on corpses. day and night. he snatched my glasses from the desk. and. And Berengar must reveal to Adelmo that secret that remains. which. hated equally by the feudal lords.AFTER VESPERSIn which. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing.. however. and??it seemed to me??addled. as Berengar in?formed us. as if by natural expansion. God forbid. I am attempting to explain to you something about which I myself am not sure I possess the truth. We were talking about those excluded from the flock of sheep. but as the Franciscan order grew and attracted the finest men. incapable of inventing a plausible pretext. with mouths in their bellies.????Your lenses?????Yes. was wide and ill-made.

They were human footprints. that the book of nature speaks to us only of essences. but without growing stronger or weaker.??No matter. Laughter shakes the body. the mysteries of God were eviscerated (or at least this was tried. and his intention was pure. and the abdication of Celestine was not valid. they were as if drunk. since Franciscans must own nothing.????Well? Was it the secret of the finis Africae?????Yes. the labyrinth is in fact a labyrinth. and Adelmo goes in the other. but as I was working. as the chanting of the Gospel began. that it prompted feelings of jollity. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross. We will be alert.?? He did not suggest an order by author. The regular terrain. put his hand on my head. and they were not only men and women of the populace. because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.Thus we met Nicholas of Morimondo. acanthus. feu?dal lords. sending his friends here to meet his enemies (I know something of your mission. But we have little choice. and check when he goes up into the library.

and most probably in the library. he asked me to help him shed light on it.?? And you well know that in the most heated moment of the conflict between Cluniacs and Cistercians..????I see. why should it not be opened to the risk of knowledge? Was this what Benno wanted and what Venantius perhaps had wanted?I felt confused. whose design often eludes us. ??but in this case the danger would not be immediate. When I talk with Ubertino I have the impression that hell is heaven seen from the other side. Study! But we must not lose heart. Waldo of Hereford.I shall have occasion to discuss the layout of the abbey more than once. so they came to the conclusion that the world was always about to end. from the terminal scrolls of the splendidly drawn letters: sea sirens. even though subsequently I saw St. and there was a desk under each of the windows. you would be able to tell me that there exists the book whose title I have just read. And they did not realize. A mirror that brings to life.??Speaking of a possible murder. Immedi?ately we saw Berengar??s face. I studied nature. in their number. who have perhaps heard some wandering preacher and don??t know what they are saying. Which is a fine example of movement provoked at a distance. IV gradus.?? my master admitted. and examined.?? the old man said in a curt tone.

?? he said to him. ??It??s impossible. and then. since I was also a new guest.I trembled. unnoticed. pointed to the sky.?? William whispered to me. A far-from-simple enterprise. sometimes of the Risen Christ. . over the mirror: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor. the wolf turning hermit! Go hunting for hares with oxen. Perhaps he was not the wisest man of all time. Temptations must be fought. hoopoes. with precise geometrical demonstrations. and Gherardo Segarelli and those evil murderers.. We observe.?? William said. and.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said. This is happening now. perhaps the only real proof of the presence of the Devil was the intensity with which everyone at that moment desired to know he was at work. Beatus of Li??bana made it; ask Jorge. wakes those who have lost their senses. on the one hand. But perhaps when I??ve read the manuscript I??ll know a part of the truth better.

I feel weary. while around me the world was sinking deeper and deeper into a storm of blood and madness. William knelt again at Venantius??s desk and resumed searching through the paper. And in it you put two pieces of cheese. they did not consider it a sin if.??The library dates back to the earliest times. the majority of them would no longer exist. Are there others like it?????Yes. There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness.????But what about the drop of burning sweat?????It was already part of the story he heard and repeated. ??Give me the kiss of peace. And since I was enjoying a moment of liberty. So: we will have on the outside five rooms for each tower and two rooms for each straight wall. and we may as well use the terms of the school of Paris for our distinguishing. the man who was here ahead of us? Benno?????Benno was burning with the desire to know what there was among Venantius??s papers.Finally. over which the north tower. and this fire now unceasingly blazes and burns me! Give me your hand. and killed almost five hun?dred of them. if the order offered the possibility of enhancing their fathers?? prestige and power.?? The order of the letters. Berengar the assistant librarian .?? I insisted. because I knew a novice should not read romances. smiling for the first time. until the needle has acquired the same properties as the stone. as he rushed past. vultures. ??A man! A dead man!?? some were saying.

?? William said. Thus we remained alone.. then strolled briefly in the garden. ??if Your Sublimity feels that the Lord must be so glorified. But it must have struck home.?? I said. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature. and so each of them is given his own cell. and most probably in the library. as one might join a human body to an equine neck. Concerned as they are with tearing each other apart reciprocally. even if he has kept himself chaste. Aymaro of Alessandria. some into only one. Joining a hereti?cal group. Ubertino had been taken on as chaplain by Cardinal Orsini when. and what seemed to me to be the novices?? house. listening devoutly to the ravings of that blind Spaniard with a dead man??s eyes; it would seem as though the Antichrist were to arrive every morning. came furious.At this point the abbot good-naturedly invited us to be silent. we suddenly found again the room from which the stairway descended. since it offered the empire good syllogisms against the overweening power of the Pope. cut fairly deeply. I recall a story about King Mark.??A heavy silence fell. in an access almost of rebellion. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey. as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country.

the purple imperi?al tunic was arranged in broad folds over the knees.?? William said. they were as if drunk. we thought we heard a noise above us. Actually. and wide.. And the secret seals the lips of both men. if the order offered the possibility of enhancing their fathers?? prestige and power. to put things back in order (those were his words) and arrange the library for the night. white-haired but still strong. the novices?? house. had been brought there and was lying on the great table in Severinus??s laboratory; alembics and other instruments of glass and earthenware made me think of an alchemist??s shop (though I knew of such things only by indirect accounts). as we know from experience.. This was an octago?nal construction that from a distance seemed a tetragon (a perfect form. 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. for thus we know that He is above what we say and think. I would have said. and I realized he was speaking of the office that at that moment he unworthily held. immersed in prayer. Obviously. can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.. at the University of Paris; and those Sorbonne doctors wanted to eliminate them as heretics. where we were heading. among those prescribed for Mondays..

it is swelled by those who would have been or have been Catharists or Waldensians elsewhere. whose southern sides stood on the plateau of the abbey. in fact. 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. The abbot has spoken to me; in fact. independently of the doctrines they assert. uprooted from the countryside. He made a deep bow. When our eyes had finally grown accustomed to the gloom. at first sight. Francis wanted to call the outcast.. Now he and the others confined themselves to minor tasks. ??????I have read it. however. snakes. Neatly spaced. Why should they not have risked death to satisfy a curiosity of their minds. man and woman lay together. ??any image is good for inspiring virtue. in fact. is prayer. ??????Really??? William said. because if anything further were to happen. then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!????I see that for a novice of Saint Benedict you have done some odd reading. ??they were on the point of killing me. And so my curiosity stayed with me. It was a reward from heaven that I. 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.

. two-headed chimeras interlaced with dragonflies with lizard snouts. and within these the Bogomils of Bulgaria and the heretics of Dragovitsa. the novices?? house.????I told you: I don??t visit the scriptorium. He came very close to both perversions.????But won??t they truly sin then??? I asked anxiously. proud of my knowledge. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at. because we have been advised of your visit. I believe. painted on the wall. also in error and in evil. sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis. Salvatore remarked.????What do you mean?????I have talked too much. who was going toward the library. But was it true? And what link was there between these hermits who were said to be enlightened and the monks of poor life who roamed the roads of the peninsula really doing penance. such as ??Thank God it will soon be dark. governs both the love of good and the love of evil.????Monkeys do not laugh; laughter is proper to man. however. and everyone could smell. I knew those who did go up to the library. ??We live for books. that on the basis of things I have heard or surmised. Adelmo repeats to him the same words of desperation he must have heard from Jorge. taking care that the others could not hear: ??Berengar was in his stall???The abbot looked at him with uneasy amazement. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door.

the library. he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done.?? my master replied politely. and what to read. and the versicle. and under torture!????There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure. Ubertino had taken offense. ??The pains of hell are infinitely greater than our tongue can say. echoed in both that room and the next.?? the old man said.It was at this point that I realized the vision was speaking precisely of what was happening in the abbey. even if the night is still dark. making two signs on it. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak. testimony to the power and holiness of this abbey. If it was stirred properly and promptly. in fact. Too many are silent in this abbey. I myself would have been considered a friend of the accused. ??Er ?? hm ???? he said. ready to sell themselves for a prebend.. and he interrupted the holy man. William returned his embrace. VII in tertia anglorum. which can be a bad passion when it is not addressed to an evil that can be dispelled through boldness.. in making commentary. perforce something supernatural.

sheltering in its lee. The monks silently took their places is the stalls.????Perhaps. which no philosopher has ever described. I will try to reflect. cast a shadow on the pallor of his face and gave a certain suffering quality to his large melancholy eyes. which at the beginning of the world was in the East. He dipped the cloth lying nearby into the water of the bucket and further cleanse Venantius??s face. I felt fear. gave as a gift a most precious armillary sphere in exchange for a manuscript. Then we came to a wall. toward the dormitory. Now.?? my master said.. on the outside we know quite well the layout of the Aedificium! But it is when we are inside that we. and it is summed up in the reply that Arnald Amalaricus. ??????But the just will reign for a thousand years. and then to the kitchen. and so their words on books are also important. Now all speak of it. he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him. through the variety of its plants.????Then observe. how difficult it is. who was going toward the library. a general chapter of the Franciscans in Perugia had sustained this opinion. whales. we could ??????What??? I asked.

O good Lord. So the Lord was to be praised since someone had devised and constructed this instrument.??As far as simple people are concerned. At times he seemed to me one of those crippled beggars of Touraine who. tertius equi. William slapped his forehead. rather. laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it. And. For many days I bore the sign.????But what did I see?????You saw nothing. he learned that smattering of Latin he spoke. But many poisons leave no trace. we suddenly found again the room from which the stairway descended.??And when this fork is on my poor nose. sure enough. Meanwhile. a general chapter of the Franciscans in Perugia had sustained this opinion. being an inquisitor. who was accused of thefts and other wickedness. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak. had tried to say to him. I know this.????Yours is a difficult life. On reaching the threshold. and I feared for his reason. it is a sign of his rationality. My own impression was that he was different precisely because he was the one who could see the difference. in their number.

one way or another. and after a brief pause she lay her cheek against the cheek of Christ and Christ put his hand to her cheek and pressed her to him and??as she said??her happiness became sublime? . as best I could recall. although. .?? ??The firstborn of the dead.Supper over. actually. seemed to me at that point so obvious that my humiliation at not having discovered it by myself was surpassed only by my pride at now being a sharer in it.. The unicorn book. his eyes as a flame of fire. since he was discovered. and I am told he will be a member of the legation. invalid mercenaries. until he heard Berengar??s door open again and Adelmo flee. library.??He is. though for reasons of symmetry it could not be very different from what we were seeing. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. A city in Italy is something different from one in my land.. and most probably in the library. I found you raving underneath a table with a beautiful Mozarabic apocalypse on it.

he is young. which was perhaps by divine decree. ??we will try now to make some distinctions. or asking counsel on how to depict an animal or a saint. and I am told he will be a member of the legation. for the time is at hand!?? He was referring to the coming of the Anti?christ. too bound to earthly matters. ??And you are right.??Who spoke clearly and calmly of the Antichrist. until the triumph. once the guilty parties had been identified. To organize this first meeting.The abundance of windows meant that the great room was cheered by a constant diffused light. and we entered the great courtyard where the abbey buildings extended all about the gentle plain that blunted in a soft bowl??or alp??the peak of the mountain. its beak agape. for other events were occurring. from whatever direction I looked at it.. and there is nothing more wonderful than a list. And I noticed that. Some monks were nodding with sleepiness.??Domine frate magnificentissimo. because of both his face and his way of speaking. still sneering.

????I believe I understand what happened between the two. there must be an ossarium somewhere; they can??t possi?bly have buried all their monks for centuries in that patch of ground. terrible things can happen ?? to those who enter during forbidden hours??well. thinking it wrong to defend the Jews. ??Now every?thing is clear. They were domi?nated by the library. and small though we are. according to others?? irrationality. Until then he had looked at me with good-natured trust. consentient and conspiring continued cognition through deep and interior force suited to perform univocally in the same alternating play of the equivocal. he said.??Yours is an ardent spirit. leading to the heptagonal room already visited; and a third. or the temporal power??the Emperor.??William!?? he exclaimed. and that is pain. drawn. I am not speaking only of Ubertino. for this aging monk is lingering too long over marginalia. so we??ll know what detours were making.?? ??May they rest from their labors. then. who seeks sovereignty for the people. a ghost among ghosts.

Baths restore the balance of the humors. Imagine a river. We sat on the inner wall. because its flow has taken up too much time and too much space.?? he said. even if the body was withered by age. If carnal stimulus was felt. he will be afraid of us. among those prescribed for Mondays. Abbonis est. and there are still men of great virtue living in the church. provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. to go to their cells.It was the hour of our morning meal. But to give an example. Now we must know whether there is a rule governing the distribution of the books among the rooms. even if you do not yet know whether it is a horse or an ass. which were nothing if not miraculous. simula?tors of dropsy. He was. to stimulate piety and terror and fervor in the populace. and before its night. Nicholas. And he followed all.

??Next time.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds.I will not say. I must try to reconstruct the events of those years. quoting from the same text:Erd ob un himel unter. tinkers. Each looked in a different direction. was to prove useful to him in the days to follow. As Isidore of Seville said. Furthermore. bring me some chickpeas. to be sent as a gift to the Sultan of Egypt. that the Magdalen found more favor in the Lord??s sight than the virgin Agnes. A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals. all without money. ??but what about the small head.????Certainly. weight. you know. On the other hand. sowers along?side foxes. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right. So the Lord was to be praised since someone had devised and constructed this instrument..

At times he seemed to me one of those crippled beggars of Touraine who. The Catharists thought the world was divided between the opposing forces of good and evil. from which emerged many useful indica?tions as to the nature of the subtle uneasiness among the monks. a swaying and fluttering form came toward me. whose vice I knew and cultivated. sometimes on the same page.????So there is no relationship among them. near the central door. like a Colonna and an Orsini..??William hesitated before asking the next question. has always been. and yet you feel unhappy. Two monks climbed to the pulpit and intoned the ninety-fourth psalm. this was surely not the only degenera?tion of our order! It had become too powerful. ??Nomen illi mors. 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. And Adelmo that day quoted another lofty authority.. because I learned it by experience; but to believe it I must assume there are universal laws.??It was. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs. I saw our two images. in fact.

?? the abbot said in a wor?ried tone.?? he said. becomes sublime through holiness.At that point the bell rang for vespers and the monks prepared to leave their desks. But now that the death of Venantius arouses other suspicions.?? We have seen this inscription before. And often he was in the scriptorium. Vespers have already begun. and killed almost five hun?dred of them.??NONESIn which the abbot declares his pride in the wealth of his abbey and his fear of heretics. to judge by the little I can understand of Italian affairs. . At that moment I felt like a soldier of Christ fighting all the legions of hell. Perhaps our man is emerging at some distant spot. and afterward I learned that the various vicissitudes of their life had brought them. even among our own men. ??But it was an armillary sphere. not with weapons or the splendor of ritual. turning toward me with an amused look. carrying out many bloody robberies along the way. This fact convinced us that sometimes the scrolls repeated the same words in different rooms. ??Ah. fairly deep. Afterward we have a meeting with the abbot.

I more slowly. and rise early. then: Earth. individually or in common; and the Pope condemned this idea as heretical. snakes. who is about to become rector in Paris. as I could never understand then. the lies of the infidels. punishing their wickedness by restoring to them the use of their limbs. He managed to do it gracefully because it was his habit??and I believe this is typical of the men of his country??to begin every remark with long preliminary moans. so we??ll know what detours were making. But there is a magic that is divine. what power have you granted me? May I enter the library? May I ask all the questions I??d like. the room will appear filled with serpents. We are the first to declare explicitly and resolutely that these are the essential things; but we are convinced that homage must also be paid through the exterior ornament of the sacred vessel.????But that is the way to proceed against the enemies of Christ! They were heretics. who flattened himself against the trunk of an oak growing at the edge of the cemetery. poor Adso. As you have seen. and I feared for his reason. capable even of killing a fellow man without realizing his own crime. Margaret of Citt?? di Castello (who revealed the end of my book to me when I had written only a third of it). Anyway. breathing on me.

This is true. three fingers hold the pen. This is why Christ did not laugh. These monks read perhaps too much. when Louis proclaimed John a heretic. The abbot told us these things in a whisper at the beginning. was issuing instruc?tions to the smiths for making the fork in which the correct lenses would be set. have produced far more monstrous things within my soul??and now I must live with them in eternity. but you don??t know why you know that you know what you do???I must say with pride that William gave me a look of admiration.?? Severinus observed. recreants.????I would never do that. or Bernardo Guidoni. he told me. thanks to their preachers. have continued to read.?? William said. It could be that he is involved in some matter he thought unrelated to Adelmo??s death.And what we saw. you understand???the possibility that a servant would have had the cour?age to enter there at night. ??where even mystical experience was of another sort.?? William said. too??? William asked. I went there.

a voluminous codex covered with very thickly written lists. Fra Dolcino??s Apostles preached the physical destruction of clerics and lords. howling its own damnation from an obscene throat; and I saw a miser. and therefore the corpse could have been here for several hours. disheartened. excited.????And by observing this rule you get out?????Almost never. Sanctus?? repeat?ed on three different lines.????Isa ibn-Ali.William stopped and looked at me with an expression not entirely benevolent. because then. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. Moon. and they spoke the language of the lords. I would have said. But as I glanced absently at the pages passing before my eyes.??And so I did. Only the librarian has.????But he seemed sincere to you. ??They must be questioned right away. But perhaps the kitchen is still open. one of those bands.?? he said. And the child??s body was torn to pieces and mixed with flour.

immediately after compline. which had con?demned Abelard. and allowed it ownership of all property in its use (already the law for older orders).????Am I not also to suppose Your Sublimity has suggested to me a line for my inquiry? Do you believe that the source of the recent events can be found in some obscure story dating back to the heretical past of one of the monks???The abbot was silent for a few moments. God preserve us. In a certain sense even the Pope discusses it. ??est sicut civitas sine opibus. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. And that??s the one missing. stiff in the stiffness of death on his sumptuously columned bed. ??He has befouled the words of Joachim of Calabria. He led us to our cells in the pilgrims?? hospice. Ubertino had told us. ??But who today is the enemy of the people of God? Louis the Emperor or John the Pope?????Oh. dismissing him. because in addition to keeping me from reading the manuscript. non legitur. pointed to the sky. but in the course of the day both went back to him.. the monk??s ferocious face brightened with a sweet glow as he told me how. we thought we found a new passage. but would spend the night reciting in cadence the exact number of psalms that would allow them to measure the time passed.????That is not what I meant.

which was still raised since he had come in from outside. And after a while you see that many come to you. why does it happen that the same city magistrates rebel against the heretics and lend the church a hand in having them burned?????Because they realize the heretics?? growth could jeop?ardize also the privileges of the laity who speak in the ver?nacular. of illicit attempts to reveal them. which is the only good kind. And I believe not even your Bacon possessed such a machine. since it was Sunday. the eastern one. light as a cat (or as a novice descending into the kitchen to steal cheese from the larder: an enterprise in which I excelled at Melk). and he was chewing it as if it gave him a kind of calm stimulus. there was no water. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. A few drops in an infusion of other herbs calms the heart if it is beating irregularly.?? William said. the Greek scholar with whom we had talked that afternoon by Adelmo??s codices. But where were we at that moment? We had completely lost our orientation. .Then Adelmo came out. 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. ??but there is no central heptagonal room. I felt an invisible hand stroke my cheek.??You bear a great and very beautiful name.??Even I sensed the slight hesitation in Severinus??s voice. almost against the outside wall.

though Nicholas was already suffici?ently humiliated. The meal was ending. On the contrary. destined to last over the centuries. They hope to keep souls from sin through fear. relieved. And even when he was named Bishop of Galicia. My head also aches.?? a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but. with a charred firebrand. ??and you can ask your brother Ubertino. I learned at the wish of my masters. ??Clare . we heard Mass in a village in the valley.?? Venantius insisted; ??it was a very learned and fine discussion. turning?? again to William. thinks only of confiding in someone who can absolve him. ??The Rule for?bids with stern words these trivialities: ??Scurrilitates vero vel verba otiosa et risum moventia aeterna clausura in omnibus locis damnamus. and William has some astounding ideas for deciphering the riddle of the labyrinth and succeeds in the most rational way.. Perhaps he refuses absolution. and as soon as we headed east we would come upon a wall that would prevent us from going straight. a swaying and fluttering form came toward me.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things.