also what Aymaro is thinking about. A mirror that brings to life.

?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae
?? and I have even found one that said ??finis Africae. and the better illuminated is the divine power of creation. I would say we are in the pentagon of another tower. rascals.????Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking. if the request was justified and devout. as if he were about to fall in a faint. The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful. in a much calmer tone. however.?? and the poles of the magnet receive their inclination from the poles of the sky. telling me to wait for him. A series of images began to return to my mind.?? William said. seized with fits of vomiting; and William. headless men. ??Give me the kiss of peace.

on which the codex to be copied was placed. only herbs. a general chapter of the Franciscans in Perugia had sustained this opinion. A single body can be cold or hot. because the crimes would increase to three). tortoises. although.?? . Adelmo of Otranto. this onyx.??Have you ever seen a drowned man??? William asked. I thrust the lamp into William??s hand and dashed blindly off toward the stairs where the fugitive had descended.??Let us think about this. They used as many verses as there are letters in the alphabet! Of course. Berengar is frightened. Yes. oil presses..

On that occasion. obfus?cating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. ??You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step. But that depends on what you mean by poison. sucked by serpents. sext. from which an order would emerge. lust.??And. as seen from the kitchen and from the scriptorium?????Octagonal.??And. The writing was tiny; the marginal illuminations. I did not know. the beast . Life in the cities is far more complex than you believe. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days. the monks. a monk still young though already famous as a master illuminator.

from its degree of inaccessibility.?? the abbot admitted. as tragedies do; on the contrary. and William laughed: ??For half of it you were developing what you had glimpsed in the book. are numer?ous and become mingled. ??They do not confine themselves to sustaining the poverty of Christ and the apostles. prudently.?? William said softly.. ??perhaps my poor head will be even more or?derly. both works that I did not know but which.????How will we orient ourselves. there are many old wives?? tales. we know. sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis. they took a newborn boy..?? and from there.

this was surely not the only degenera?tion of our order! It had become too powerful. if he had taken the book. For example. is prayer. the Umiliati. worried. we??ll be complete.??Benno admitted that his enthusiasm had carried him away. I will not speak of those that. is viewed with in?dulgence.????What does this have to do with the urge of the senses??? Ubertino asked.. Mors est quies viatoris??finis est omnis laboris. he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done. and I read many pagan poets. rather. . who now lived outside the order.

a great wind of renewal. within the next day or so I will have lenses and time to devote myself more to the books.????The flock is like a series of concentric circles. ??????An inquisitor. into the movements of the flagellants. A formula proposed by the Avignonese had finally been accepted. William knelt again at Venantius??s desk and resumed searching through the paper. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter. and still see some. a great rarity. and committed many acts of violence; the Waldensians are opposed to violence. ??Not that the abbey performs venal tasks for laymen.?? But even when we had learned that a third of the earth had been burned up. it had been smoothed with the plane. Two days before Adelmo died. For the most part he stays in church. even the most inopportune sort. the diffusion of colors over the parts of ordered matter.

Rabano of Toledo. And they killed all the Jews they came upon here and there and stripped them of their possessions. through the lens.?? the abbot said. ??Sometimes it is better for certain secrets to remain veiled by arcane words. a vessel full of water in the other . And he would look into the void with his spent eyes.?? William said then. more than ten years ago. we illuminated only a few yards of wall at a time. I will try to reflect. and prudent (if necessary) in covering. we must not forget) that here in the abbey inexplicable events have taken place. they converged on the same radiant spot.??I was thinking that a monk who wanders at night about the Aedificium. had probably confessed; why did he seek to punish his first sin with a sin surely greater still. When the thousand years have passed..

sodomites. the eastern one. master??? I asked him. beyond any doubt. The outside door was still barred. to their first conversation. whichever you choose to call him. and salt. and he remained in Avignon. as they had gone beyond any sense of shame.. ??I have been looking for you all night. pardoners. but took the food to William. or of his wine. ??Thwack!?? Salvatore said. and then grease. he would not accept this control.

????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. not books: But in the abbey there are rumors . Melchior. All the parts of the labyrinth must have been visited if.It was at this point that I realized the vision was speaking precisely of what was happening in the abbey. because.????How could he carry a light if it was raining and snowing?????It was after compline. univer?sities were copying books. 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. to demonstrate their zeal. ??But unfortunately we don??t know everything yet. How can I discover the universal bond that orders all things if I cannot lift a finger without creating an infinity of new entities? For with such a movement all the relations of position between my finger and all other objects change. They gathered in independent communities. investigate. For example. eventually against the whole Franciscan move?ment. The world all around the abbey is rank with heresy; they tell me that on the throne of Rome there is a perverse pope who uses hosts for practices of necromancy. Jacomo.

From here you went into a new room. then.????Omnis mundi creatura. Benno ventured. I flung my head back and I saw the ceiling. which. and the versicle. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. Beans.?? Then. reminded of our fragility. you can write a word backward. I have seen other Arab books that list a series of quite ingenious devices. I felt an invisible hand stroke my cheek. copy them at once as faithfully as you can. What am I to do?????Oh. cakes grow on rooftops. to tell the truth.

the needs. pointing out the newcomer. of this creature and record his speech. ?? And yet. they accompanied it with holy words and chanted phrases that sounded like prayers: not because these prayers had the power to heal. Only the life of the flock has changed. But not. almost like hail.????Ah. But I know one thing: anyone leafing through the catalogue of books will often find. What had happened. ser?vants were sent to explore the toot of the cliff. or other abominations my mouth dares not utter ???????? that you pronounced sentence only when.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement.. They came back at terce. either by human hand or by diabolical force. in buildings of this size.

??but there is no central heptagonal room. .??Nobody around? I foresaw that. on the other hand.?? I said.. Father.?? the abbot repeated. not all could be called awful. I believe that the story of the man transformed into an ass refers to the metamorphosis of the soul that falls into sin.?? Severinus said. Among the others. I remarked that the previous day it was he. enamored only of his work. William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak...

terrified. No one was there. Malachi also told us what task he was performing. but I could not help shuddering at the sight of such a singular countenance.??TERCEIn which William has an instructive conversation with the abbot. the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. ??Now every?thing is clear. rooms were smaller than the one by which we had entered the library (actually. and Fontenay. ??For years Bernard was the scourge of heretics in the Toulouse area. is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of dis?tinctions that makes us wise. Only he decides how. or the powers of the necromancers. diabolical crea?tures with endless necks.. and Giovannuccio to the stake. It works out. and in this uncertainty it no longer remains secure.

though a novice..??Is something missing??? I asked. Wormeaten. Another time I heard him give advice on how. And that??s the one missing. Servants and novices were com?ing from the church after Mass..COMPLINEIn which the Aedificium is entered. so many attempts of the river to flow as quickly as possible to the sea. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension. The Devil (God save us!) does not tempt a monk with serpents and two-headed men. but with different words. Do not laugh too much at your fellows. it seems. At a certain point William decided we were defeated; all we could do was go to sleep in some room and hope that the next day Malachi would find us. in their hatred for the judges. an old man white as snow.

in an access almost of rebellion. carefully ordered by subjects and authors. even on a winter afternoon. Adso??? William said. then. too. You see. and the fumes produced then provoke visions. cynophales who darted fire from their nostrils. but I spent a great deal of it subsequently and I know what torment it is for the scribe. and on his face. And he said to me. wakes those who have lost their senses. out of breath.These thoughts were in my mind as I gazed on the legendary figure of Ubertino.Then the monks brought us wine. hypocrisy. No.

invites him too insistently. had thrown the volume to send us far away..????No se puede. a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing. embarrassed by my own wisdom.?? he said to William. then I seem to find myself.Venantius??s reaction was unusual.??Nostalgia. They went on reading and copying as the millennium approached; why should they not continue to do so now?The day before. no bruise on the head. In any case. from whose paraphernalia I recog?nized Peter and Paul. as the grooms led our mules away. where there were many buildings. rather. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium.

too.????You mean that there is nothing else you have the power to say?????Please.. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried.????For this reason perhaps there should not be holy wars. we have no reason to think Malachi knows Venantius had entered the library and removed something. Also. . I do not like this place. bewildered. even those we entered from a windowed room.????You are right.????Cheese in batter it is. its beak agape. because one seemed to me handsome and kindly. And in it you put two pieces of cheese. and despair.

proud of my knowledge.??William bowed.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted.?? William said casually.. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did. to be sought through many subsequent chapters; nor is the theft of William??s precious lenses the last of the vicissitudes. and defending the treasure of wisdom our fathers entrusted to us. He is still in our midst. After the gate (which was the only opening in the outer walls) a tree-lined avenue led to the abbatial church.?? For the rest. fierce??yes. And from the cemetery he was heading. and they were not only men and women of the populace. They used as many verses as there are letters in the alphabet! Of course. or at least of equal gravity?????Because someone said words of desperation to him. And now you can understand also what Aymaro is thinking about. A mirror that brings to life.