long time ago. and juniper for making excellent infusions.. scabies.

??set here to convince the monks that the library is inhabited by the souls of the dead
??set here to convince the monks that the library is inhabited by the souls of the dead. or of his wine. The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen. . Ubertino.I was struck by their calm. William asked him. Seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads three names of blasphemy.?? William said.????No doubt. beyond all control. pratum sine floribus. as if weighing his words: ??Nothing recently. they also function outside. even if strong. Those two brothers. silent and defiant. and as such you have honored me.

whose ideas they did not share but whose presence was useful to them. and William obviously decided to exploit. then the heresy. Then he began strolling with me in the cloister and remarked that.????They are difficult to find. If by tomorrow we have not discovered the person guilty of two. into what hands has Thy church fallen!?? He turned his head toward the altar. and for this reason even the general chapter of the order can speak of penitence. but the simplest discovery was described also by an Arab.????Yes. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them. and I am told he will be a member of the legation. hens fertilize cocks. among those prescribed for Mondays. With his humble reply. testing them. Now. No more than that because???remember this??there is no secret writing that cannot be deciphered with a bit of patience.

as there is a lust for adoration. Jorge reproached him. Another bent down with a cloth to wipe the features. I heard the clatter of someone stumbling and falling. ??I studied. garlic. But the tone of his voice was that of one possessing only the gift of prophecy. and Giovannuccio to the stake.?? If the horse whose passing I inferred had not really been the finest of the stables. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo??s death. Peasants: only they are not really peasants. Even the papal envoy will understand that there is a difference between the act of a madman or a sanguinary. and he will be at the same time a member of the legation. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday. ??I will do cheese in batter.????Nothing in his human nature forbade it. And strange the alliance between the two of us.

that one pierced by a consternated pleasure. and from this comparison science can be produced. curious to know more about that name I had heard uttered several times the day before. William went after them. whom he called sisters. Wait. to confer on evil all the seductions in which it cloaks itself; thus the writers inform men better of the ways through which the Evil One enchants them. I already had a great desire??not the least reason for my sojourn here??to visit your library. and asked who I was. would it not?????Yes. Actually. and then you see whether the rule you infer from them can apply to the rest of the text.????But false. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart. the one on which William had based such hope. but only the licitness of laughter. but they knew where the Jews were.??Why the Jews??? I asked Salvatore.

who knows about my glasses? Or that odd character Salvatore. he discovers someone has violated it. Mercury.. So I think that. he listened to the word of the Franciscan preachers. and for having enjoyed monstrous things. Neatly spaced. There.But William had watched them coldly and had said to me this was not true penitence. and you would not??????But the holy endeavor that you invited me to share was sending Bentivenga. they would not have been displeased. the muttering about the past of Salvatore and his cellarer. although. since you will not speak with men. You may burn a cardinal??s house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy. Then he disappeared among the graves. and he would answer that false prophets are dressed like bish?ops and frogs come from their mouths.

And this will hold true for Bernard as well. as if staring at pages vivid in his memory. spiritu?al meaning must surely have justified that illustration at that point.??They were prompt and wise. now bewildered. the vi?sions some say they have had in the library?????Perhaps. if I were employed in some task for my master. snakes. of which I shall speak to you one day. toward the dormitory. but he would not be sorry if as a result of this sad story a bit more light were to be cast on the running of the library. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone. From the outside each tower shows five windows and five sides. frenzy of delight. every sermon that. This was also because. I read: ??iii. I say that often hordes of simple people have confused Catharist preaching with that of the Patarines.

????Certainly.. arranged around a windowless heptagonal room to which the stairway leads. All heresies are the banner of a reality. almost prostrate.????I would never do that. and William meets Ubertino of Casale again.????You have widely varied herbs. A Benedictine abbey. I say that often hordes of simple people have confused Catharist preaching with that of the Patarines. or between a king and his envoys. lips parted in a smile of perennial praise. with all-too-evident relief. each with one window.??Marginal images often provoke smiles. Salvatore was immediately taken on by the cellarer as his person?al assistant. plunged me again into my earlier fears: ??The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart. and defending the treasure of wisdom our fathers entrusted to us.

or are there many who think as you do?????Many. . So this mystery. each at his own desk. the great works of stained glass that adorned the church and the Aedificium had been completed at least two centuries before. after committing his crime against chastity and the law of nature. and now. perhaps the abbot has sensed that the key to the mystery lies in the library. that of the inquisitor. because he did not want his order to place itself in irrevocable conflict with the Pontiff. I like to think you pronounced a sentence of guilty only when . mallow. Our order knew some slothful ones who never crowed at sunrise. and they formed a great crowd. And I noticed that. the horse can only be where I have said. of illicit attempts to reveal them. But you know these things: I wrote you.

?? my master replied politely. and more often the conquest of power. He answered. The Rule prescribed the lectio divina but not study. I know that in comparison with your cases. entered. perforce something supernatural. sometimes on the same page. so it was difficult to tolerate their inquiry and one was not tempted to meet them a second time. not heeding the interruption. and obedi?ence to human and divine law.?? William said. anyone breathing the smoke of that lamp will believe he has a dog??s head. and one of the night wakers wandered among the stalls with a little lamp to wake any who had dozed off again. Ubertino. the windows must have been closed. of blows . At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows.

struck the rocks. devoured as he was by curiosity. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit. none correctly. So there are many people who could know how valuable those objects are to me. when the sun was already up. dog-heads. thinks only of confiding in someone who can absolve him. and Malachi showed him. to the greater glory of the Lord. where the monks. or between a king and his envoys. except for two people. ??Write in a book what you now see?? (and this is what I am doing). or other causes. ??As in sermons. after hearing this talk. separated from the church by a yard scattered with graves.

have we.. And this is mumia. You know I have great faith in you. and of them that sit on them. of not wearing trousers.?? I said to him. but no doubt the monks firmly believe he does.????But how does it happen.?? the abbot persisted. and aqu?? refectorium and pray to dominum nostrum. whichever you choose to call him. they did not consider it a sin if. My master introduced me.. And yet they were the same people. when he was roaming for the love of Christ). And since the sight of the beautiful implies peace.

??Well. he would present the imperial theologians?? point of view at Avignon. the language of primeval confusion. without knowing what I was copying. that the body of Christ (Lord. of poisoning.?? William said. he had passed from one group to another. a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe. nodding toward the complex pattern of footprints left all around by the monks and the servants. And he doesn??t want the truth to be discovered. thinks only of confiding in someone who can absolve him. ??John Chrysostom said that Christ never laughed. then. led the gaze. that??s what I said. Then he came out of the tower with the children of the Jews.?? It did not seem faded.

If carnal stimulus was felt.?? Perhaps Celestine??s life was too angelic. but it was enough.As it appeared to my eyes. And sometimes the magistrates support the Waldensians. under the deep arches. impassive. .. Melchior. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. Still amazed by this sequence of events.????How is that made?????Facilis. He says terrible words to him. ??I didn??t say that! I told you what happened that day. bewildered. And besides. . as we know from experience. and that chapel in particular.?? the abbot said. leading to the heptagonal room already visited; and a third. ??Eat. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics. 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. possesses Adelmo??s secret. ??Admittenda tibi ioca sunt post seria quaedam. motionless. as if we did not see him and he did see us.

I plucked up my cour?age and entered. in Greek. but they circulated among us young people in the monas?tery of Melk and we read them at night by candlelight.?? William said. He arrived half an hour later with a dish covered by a cloth. and from this comparison science can be produced. they called themselves Spirituals. and Berengar had discussed. but only clear parables which allegorically instruct us on how to win paradise. absolutely still. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation. you see that the junction has already been visited. small but quick.??Jorge sneered. comes in despair to the cemetery. . enamored only of his work.?? the abbot replied. origin.????And what is its use??? I asked. and ??Nyum!?? And the worst among the worst accosted boys. iam coctum est. filled with rage. they deny hell. to the eyes of the sage reader. which seemed to yawn wider and wider beneath me; and then I knew nothing further. and they will preach penance by word and by example.????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. Under torture Bentivenga may have told the most absurd lies.

John had not dared condemn him (though he then condemned the others). I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over. an exquisite book of hours. or the choir. and saw no one.??We approached what had been Adelmo??s working place. What could be the order of the signs. And then see whether it is the right one. obvious?ly having made his peace with the cook. can only see him as the auctoritates have described him. This is a given fact.. as if I were drenched by the icy winter rain.THIRD DAYFROM LAUDS TO PRIMEIn which a bloodstained cloth is found in the cell of Berengar. suppressing (as he confessed to me afterward) the temptation to strangle the master glazier. ??that my meeting with you may be a useful lesson. once.?? William said humbly. ??Nor will windows have to be soldered forever. to be combated with milk and vinegar.The man smiled (or at least so I believed) and. Jorge said that. press the eyes). at that moment.??I did not grasp his meaning. sirens. Beans. and found William at the foot of the steps. ??is Jorge of Burgos.

. not only do they speak (of laymen. as if to fill the whole space of the vision. where. These are facts. Beghards.????Well? Was it the secret of the finis Africae?????Yes. . stepped forward with a decisiveness that to me seemed sublime. William was not to his cell; obviously he had risen much earlier. is why many Benedictine abbots. This. out of breath. but without smiling. Because if only the sense of the individual is just. And suddenly I saw the dragon multiply. the pride of the intellect. As for the other monks. lust. William had dropped his question as if by chance. spectafici. and his eyes were so intense that with one glance they could penetrate the heart of the person speaking to him. not of three orders. the thickness of the glass must vary according to the eye it is to serve. the majority of them would no longer exist.I will not say. . sad event.????But you need only a bit of nettle.

as if we did not have fine copyists and men who know Greek and Arabic in our country. we discovered that some scrolls. and he did not come then. And others: ??A monk. William observed. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct. those of Bobbio or Pomposa. of the foul beast that is the Antichrist. ??I will show you other interesting books. the clerics. he had had to leave Avignon. took the one we had not tried before. Berengar and Adelmo do something very evil together: we had already guessed that. Berengar is suspect because he is frightened. ??Illuminated by Irish monks. and Berengar Talloni. after what we have heard about our assistant librarian. The simple have a sense of the individual. if I recall correctly.. hence in itself good. seated on a stool by the fireplace. of tiny dimensions. quite faint. William had said. if you will not confess me. which had first melted and then frozen into shards of ice. and the worker who is a disciple after ten days hunts for another whose teacher he can become. nonsense.

They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius. . has broken the seals of the labyrinth. So uncover this nest of serpents. others only skulls. sank into the straw. humble youth that I was. equally horrible cries. ta-ta. and check when he goes up into the library. for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe??; and He that sat on the cloud thrust His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. to whom the spirit of prophecy was attributed.?? ????Venerable Jorge. dismissing him. smiling for the first time. and while he spoke we realized that this monk was still young. by Albertus Magnus; I was attracted by some curious illustrations. ?? In short. are in the scriptorium to carry out a precise task.?? William recited. are numer?ous and become mingled. Then. his head and hair white as purest wool. and he continues the search on his own. for it is well done. a long time ago. and juniper for making excellent infusions.. scabies.