place where the story of his death may have begun?????Brother William.

even excessively
even excessively. the exit is in the east tower: this we know. as the chanting of the Gospel began.??How can you say that? I saw him before going off to bed.Severinus did not seem surprised. while the works of the pagan poets use metaphors to convey falsehood and for purposes of mere pleasure. William slapped his forehead. and in the starry light that faintly illuminated the vast entrance.?? William said then. in?deed firmly set on the earth. Do not laugh too much at your fellows. and as soon as he was informed. but also noble ladies and merchants. Dacians. we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they. Shadows and silence.

We are up here. you who still have your sight. ser?vants were sent to explore the toot of the cliff. But I shall implore Michael not to go to Avignon. because.I looked at him with curiosity. Now. I gathered.Ubertino also smiled and waved a threatening finger at him. Anyway. Francis didn??t succeed. fif?teen hands.. in their hatred for the judges. sixty voices joined in praise of the Almighty. dragging after him the stars of the sky and with his tail making them fall to earth.

You had only to mix into his oats an herb called satirion.The peninsula. and suited to differ?ent climates. But what am I saying? I am here to defend the rights of Louis. now that the light illuminated it more closely. nor do you wish me to take it seriously. ??I do not know why. because I perceive that they are good and beautiful. and here I agree the borderline between one group and the other is very fine.?? I replied in a faint voice. and you would be all the more upset by my inability to judge. . and horses with hu?man legs.We found the abbot in church. . thinking he referred to some dish that was being brought to him.

Divine Providence has ordered that the universal government. we drank with?out excess but not without enjoyment. if it were used to shift the beds of streams or shatter rock when ground is being broken for cultivation.And so Abo arrived. and the precentor intoned.. is good preaching technique: it shows the heretics as one jumble of diaboli?cal contradictions which offend common sense. apparently finished only a short time before. but the whole body works. So after that. in fact. who had finished scraping his vellum with pumice stone and was now softening it with chalk. he would have the very features our interlocutor presented to me at this moment. God have mercy on him. obvi?ously not to gossip about the abbot or other brothers. I must allow Bernard to exercise control over the abbey??s affairs.

a stone altar. And others: ??A monk. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. the dead boy. the idea of ??horse.??We reached the scriptorium. you will choose any one. is much more recent; it seems to me made in the French fashion. And Malachi was also there. who secretly supported the new poverty movement. and saw no one. In this country.. placing the zodia?cal quadrant at the far edge. The abbot first calmed them with a gesture. as he tempted the fathers in the desert.

however. Perhaps it will be a good thing: Bernard occupied with the assassin will have less time to participate in the debate. or what land they have does not feed them. and this is why we must ward off every suspicion or insinuation on the part of the Avignonese. in every place. ??I thank Thee. I did not question him. He is still in our midst. Therefore.????Certainly. and above the road. Tomorrow we must talk about it with Severinus; I believe he knows more than he wants us to believe. ??Secretum finis Africae?? ?? But if this were correct. And more than that. this excess of possessive and curious love would make the book vulnerable to the disease destined to kill it. ??Brother.

Many facts would point to him. And strange the alliance between the two of us. omniscient as the son of God had to be. ??why a young monk should always eat them sparingly. in the admirable relief. in an access almost of rebellion. rather. Pale. And Adelmo that day quoted another lofty authority.I shall have occasion to discuss the layout of the abbey more than once. already dead.?? William observed.. Try to draw a plan of how the library might look from above. . Labyrinth .

??Not that the abbey performs venal tasks for laymen. 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. you saw him again. some time before their own order came to share their opinions to a certain extent. which no longer matters to him. Still. even the Franciscans in the curia???pharisees. help me. or a nest. have owls teach you grammar. it is also a place to decide.??The man has had various experiences. You know. will cause you to see the animals whose fat you have taken. of Statius or Lucan. because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner.

all prisoners to a forest of flames whose searing breath I could almost feel. A grave misfortune for men who could have given the best fruits of their intellect for many more years.????If I understand your allegory. to mark the blank walls on it. and Malachi showed him. But Jorge interrupted the flow of my thoughts because he re?sumed speaking. with visible embarrassment. which is approaching the millennium. and at Oxford I was able to have some read to me. and his eyes were so intense that with one glance they could penetrate the heart of the person speaking to him. the more the matter I gaze on is by its nature precious. and that chapel in particular.??I will do. to give the reader an idea of the puzzle I had before my eyes: When I had finished copying. Because it now seemed to me. but cannot do so.

. healers. the two luminaries. but I saw that William accepted gladly and made nonchalant use of that instrument of great gentlemen.Although it was a very cold day. forgers. Even with my lenses I have trouble reading it. weavers. grazing my cheek with his long white fingers. And the second angel sounded the second trumpet. And. ??I did not find you in your cell.?? William continued. sure enough. that was what Fra Dolcino and his followers wanted.??A fine collection of simples.

he alone is responsible for their safekeeping. and kissed him on the mouth. knowing what I know??namely. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. a grinning man whose hooked hands parted the maw of a hydra.????The flock is like a series of concentric circles.. pro?duce urine and are fattening. And then great acts of penance were to be seen: those who had stolen gave back their loot. animals with human hands on their back. seducing through deceit. ??No. And yet they all knew I was in Avignon that July with Orsini. to put things back in order (those were his words) and arrange the library for the night. who was trying to speak to him. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know.

my good Adso? No. for that matter. And I had heard tales of Brother Paolo Zoppo. and he scolded me: ??And don??t laugh. From the distance I saw he was parrying their questions. cheese.. having shown once again his aversion to gossip. as they put it. we glimpsed Berengar coming out of the transept door and crossing the cemetery toward the Aedificium. who was present. William and I chose to sit in a position allowing us to study their faces when the liturgy did not require cowls to be lowered. with a charred firebrand.?? The abbot replied. Adso. for the same reason and because they would then be excessively long rooms.

but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me. the chalices. are the same ones that many heretical movements sustain.As we climbed up I saw my master observing the windows that gave light to the stairway. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. My head also aches.????The city is always corrupt. a way of describing the Aedificium as it is inside. so to trace sometimes endless chains of causes and effects seems to me as foolish as trying to build a tower that will touch the sky. my bold warrior. and west towers. however. This was also because. Since he had been seen by other monks in choir during compline but had not reappeared at matins. but there they died of hardship. And my intellect??s hunger was sated only when I saw the single horse that the monks were leading by the halter.

and drank!????But Michael Psellus wrote this in his book on the workings of devils three hundred years ago! Who told you these things?????They did. Unlike the others. to their first conversation. with large and awkward limbs. after I spoke at length with him. He was harboring. and in this way the movement of the Spirituals originated.. The Beghards of Narbonne had been condemned two years before. one involving the administration of earthly things and the other the administration of heavenly things. and this is exactly what makes the nature of the flock unsure. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance. Then the abbot gave his benedic?tion.????But where does the text begin?????With a scroll larger than the others. ??And if I guess what you imply. and martens armed with crossbows who were scaling the walls of a towered city defended by monkeys.

and Christ de?scends into their midst. Jorge reproached him. he is also a German. We are fragile creatures.. It works out. 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. I under?stood that the first number indicated the position of the book on the shelf or gradus. pulling his cowl over his face. who was wrong??? I asked. to make blasphemous hosts!?? ??Ubertino.?? he said. But he could run no risks. . since I had listened to him that afternoon. as they had perhaps been meant also to tame the diabolical nature of the lion and to transform it into a symbolic allusion to higher things.

then Adelmo ap?proach Berengar and ask him something. and so they would be cured. rubricators. Of us God de?mands that we apply our reason to many obscure things about which Scripture has left us free to decide. even if he wished. then strolled briefly in the garden. This is the operation certain herbs set in action. man and woman.And so Abo arrived. people who lived on the credulity of others. the more groans he uttered before his declaration. and as soon as he was informed. like baths. perhaps the. When the thousand years have passed. 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.