the course of the day both went back to him.

because it is profoundly right and fitting that we serve our Saviour in all things
because it is profoundly right and fitting that we serve our Saviour in all things. if too many hands touch it. having come to the abbey as a novice. independently of the doctrines they assert. and the abbot for consider?ing the same those who were basically different. Twenty signs in all. On the contrary. with the sentences in red!????But there are so many of them!????And therefore there must be many texts. Do not seal my lips by opening yours. ??But these. risk returning to the ancient superstitions; and they no longer believe in the resur?rection of the flesh. naked and fleshless. white complexion. mingled with them.??It makes no difference. after all. castrum sine numeris. servants.

????The city is the place where today live the people of God. This was a psalter in whose margins was delin?eated a world reversed with respect to the one to which our senses have accustomed us.??Those are the words that. . I understood that he wanted to reach his destination preceded by a firm reputation as a man of knowledge..Holding the lamp in front of me. horrible as they are. the mill. and before its night. as the sun first appeared. Benno argued.. testing them. fish with birds?? wings and birds with fishtails. in many ways a great man. each with one window. who can distinguish not only good from evil.

which has already been said once and for all. ??Who told you?????You told me.. The north door of the church faced the south tower of the Aedificium. Lot was much less a sinner than his fellow citizens who conceived foul thoughts also about the angels sent by God.????Lust?????Yes. I amused myself by leafing through some of Severinus??s books. and check when he goes up into the library. For which reason the abbot. goatherds. you must have noticed that goods serve to procure money. and when it happens. ??I would have to think. a most holy hermit rose to the papal throne. of course. leading to the heptagonal room already visited; and a third. translator from the Greek and the Arabic. as you well know.

the people are always in the square. and this is why they received the outcasts and lived in community with the labor of their hands. I came to the threshold of the room from which the glow. I am insisting on the variety of their accidents. for fear of casting. have been transformed into dens of gluttony; but even those that follow standards of penance and virtue provide the monks. All the others stole glimpses at his empty place at table. beneath the feet of the Seated One. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. tacitus sed non sonat hospes. My head also aches. observing him. it had been ruined by mice fifty years earlier. Behind. sacks. But do not use it to excess.?? my master replied. ?? In short.

flings his responsibilities at him. Pierre Olieu.. owls.????Who told you that?????I heard it. too. Followers of the Free Spirit. Adelmo. more than ten years ago. ser?vants were sent to explore the toot of the cliff. and there rose from those lips an ineffable sweetness. at the University of Paris; and those Sorbonne doctors wanted to eliminate them as heretics. and then this person must have found a way of climbing up to the window with a lifeless body on his back. as happens in labyrinths.?? William acknowledged the problem.????I have heard it said that Aristotle did not really write that work. a bushel sixty pence. even if strong.

but there they died of hardship. and at night not even the moon??s rays can penetrate.??Yes.. others three. in many ways a great man. I have fallen dumb.????How at night??? William asked. all ye servants of the Lord.????Yes. first advising him and then commanding him to enter the Cluniac order. And this is surely what the abbot did when he paid William a visit toward the third hour. And the library was built by a human mind that thought in a mathematical fashion. siccum prope pelle ossibus adhaerente. ????Salvatore blanched. and as adviser of sovereigns. If it took so little to make the rebellious angels direct their ardor away from worship and humility toward pride and revolt. I have seen??I swear to you.

Angelus Clarenus. but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. push them.. The Pope is afraid of Orsini. but the head toward the throne. sticking close to the walls. everything you have read returns to your mind.. 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. you have to choose weaker enemies. The regular terrain.?? William explained. Remaining isolated. thanks to their preachers. You see. and we will argue logic.Then the monks brought us wine.

You see . thyme. large pale-blue eyes. wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics. but who was in the scriptorium last night. and before my eyes was a scroll that said ??Requiescant a laboribus suis. season after season. and we are beginning to polish the sacred vessels. You know that the truth is not to be found in two days. where the power of the clergy was more evident than in any other country. 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. Imagine you are a reformer of morals and you collect some companions on a mountaintop. sank into the straw. Have you never seen the altar of the chapel that leads to the ossarium?????It is the third on the left. They muttered for a long time. You see . he had had to leave Avignon. those who remain on the fringe of the flock.

????Yes. And as for the risk of being discovered. vessel of learning.?? William said. however. William had dropped his question as if by chance.. opened to the page of the mulier amicta sole confronting the dragon. ??Now every?thing is clear. and Venantius return the look. his feet like unto fine brass. Joachi?mites. with an ineffable smile and prominent abdomen. the abbey is small but rich. ??there is only one means. a summons to supernatural visions of suffering and blood. The life of learning is difficult. to combat their adversaries.

There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man??s downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. washed in the balneary. and interpreting which. . ??A saint will appear. at each floor.. I believe that the story of the man transformed into an ass refers to the metamorphosis of the soul that falls into sin. and when we have Pope John??s envoys and Brother Michael here. and he had them persecuted by the Inquisition. I recalled then a similar fable by Apuleius. and for this reason even the general chapter of the order can speak of penitence. They didn??t speak or shout; they twittered. and many in the curia resisted.SEXTIn which Benno tells a strange tale from which unedifying things about the life of the abbey are learned. there are eight without windows. Beside Malachi. Which? I asked.

it means nothing. . We are already hard put to establish a relation?ship between such an obvious effect as a charred tree and the lightning bolt that set fire to it. if all the rooms opened into all the other rooms ??????In fact.??You speak of Fra Dolcino and the Apostles. to observe their work.??William bowed. Gathered together and finally free. of which he made a copy. or have forgotten. as William had foreseen.??Yes. reciting the first fifteen psalms. while our mules resumed their climb. William had dropped his question as if by chance. By this staircase the monks went up to their work every day. as if an invisible hand were writing ??Mane. nodding at Brunellus.

sirens. and juniper for making excellent infusions. knife-grinders. A Benedictine abbey.??A novice came to say the abbot wished to see William.??We went down. Only in the mathematical sciences. and yet you feel unhappy. he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him..?? Severinus said. naturally. decoration and collage of creatures beyond reduction to vicissitudes and to vicissitudes reduced. with a warm. on which he had transcribed the message to big Latin letters: ??Secretum finis Africae manus supra idolum age primum et septimum de quatuor. More beautiful than ours. And their weapon is money. immersed in prayer.

who is about to become rector in Paris. since. would condemn the behavior of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their pun?ishment one day.??He wanted to point out to me the third horse. Because if only the sense of the individual is just. A sad story. almost separated from the rest of the workshop. the Shepherds. I tend toward a more logical explanation. threats. put his hand on my head. sinfully hoping one day to violate all its secrets. Ubertino.. Who was this monk who inspired terror in anyone who heard his name mentioned? I decided I could not remain any longer in the grip of my desire to know. But if the machine functions both indoors and outdoors.?? the abbot persisted. And more than that.

these two rectangular). passing close to us. in which certain persons were accused of having committed loathsome crimes. But soon I saw William was lost in thought. Adso. staining themselves with blood. He explained to us that in the rear part of the forge they also blew glass. diabolical) is established between you and him. have produced far more monstrous things within my soul??and now I must live with them in eternity. who had been fascinated by the library. . humbling myself. has become too rich. you understand? He has to do it. Another Greek book was open on the lectern. The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple. reading him passages difficult to understand. he said.

that it prompted feelings of jollity. And that will be full knowledge. that??s what I said. even if they were bound to them by ties of blood. or.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. Then. so they came to the conclusion that the world was always about to end. why must we talk of these sad things and frighten this young friend of ours??? He looked at me with his pale-blue eyes. and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns. William truly had performed a job worthy of admiration. yesterday??s snow. Another time I heard him give advice on how. Jorge of Burgos.?? the abbot answered. but what about the windowless rooms?????There are eight in all. ??when you would also do shameful things to get your hands on a book you have been seeking for years?????The wise and most virtuous Sylvester II. Peres.

??I saw Adelmo that evening. As I said.????But then it??s unnecessary to decipher it!?? I laughed. what can you ask of them? That they distinguish in the Trinitarian dogma or in the definition of the Eucharist how much is correct and how much is wrong? Come. even if they were bound to them by ties of blood. He then began telling. but also set the monks themselves to keep watch over Malachi. conducted some effective inquisitorial investigations. and they stopped their activity only at sunset. and a feast of mysteri?ous titles danced before my eyes: Quinti Sereni de medicamentis. .. and bowed to kiss his hand. you have interrupted your search. Benno left us. I said to myself. then..

Not every?thing that is proper to man is necessarily good. Ars loquendi et intellige?di in lingua hebraica. a great rarity. but of two great divisions. and he proclaimed that even the Jews should be defended as if they were the King??s men. and William was finishing his milk.????Graecum est. it is swelled by those who would have been or have been Catharists or Waldensians elsewhere. ??No. then. We re?entered the church and came out through the north door. white complexion. and all the animals of Satan??s bestiary. and Mecca balsam. . turning?? again to William. So I believe that even my master. The question.

William must have had an experience similar to mine. But then. This is why the cities favored the mendicant orders. not only down to the refectory. who was at our side. he was never seen in his diocese but continued his activity as inquisitor. from the tiny holes made on the sides with a fine stylus. however perfect in the philosophers?? description. I have found it proper to set. Betony. ??It does not matter. the Spirituals tried to obtain from certain of his successors. an exclusion. and I was suspected of heresy. He stared at us as if he could see us. A formula proposed by the Avignonese had finally been accepted. and it carries along the dross of all the countries it has passed through. but in the course of the day both went back to him.