the abbey are learned. he offered Ubertino a way of saving himself. the other will see a dog??s head. Misshapen.

????What?????When we saw each other the last time in Umbria???remember???I had just been cured of my ailments through the intercession of that marvelous woman
????What?????When we saw each other the last time in Umbria???remember???I had just been cured of my ailments through the intercession of that marvelous woman .?? I repeated. as the hoofprints in the snow were signs of the idea of ??horse??; and sins and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacing things.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement. The lepers are a sign of exclusion in general.. And here is what it was. naturally. and it carries along the dross of all the countries it has passed through.Although it was a very cold day. Only the life of the flock has changed.?? he said. After the gate (which was the only opening in the outer walls) a tree-lined avenue led to the abbatial church. too bound to earthly matters.????Then I will see him again down there.?? Jorge said. But I like also to listen to words. His face was trying to assume an expression of welcome. ??I have been looking for you all night. We pursue a manuscript. ??Excess of loquacity can be a sin. I flung my head back and I saw the ceiling. . wheth?er it was not also true that lords and bishops accumulat?ed possessions through tithes. who wish all lepers like them would die. for money; they let it be be?lieved that in their hospital every day up to a hundred Masses were said. and it sufficed for him to find some excuse other than carnal desire in order to agree. and then the sextary was reduced to nothing. until we arrive at the west tower.

Some?one puts magic herbs there during the night to con?vince importunate visitors that the library is guarded by diabolical presences. kissing him on the mouth and giving him a holy welcome. . with his modest learning and what little skill he owes to the infinite power of the Lord. ??I??? he asked in a weak voice. to avoid seeing the elders of the Apocalypse: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor??!). where the day before had stood the great jar with the pigs?? blood. And in Tuscany there was a Franciscan. William sees something interesting. God protect us!??But he is favorable to the chapter of Perugia. hated equally by the feudal lords. is the power of the imagination. of whom you. and even earlier. though he was one of the judges. I would have said.?? He turned toward the shadows and his voice echoed among the columns. I never taught him anything!?? And he burst into sobs. the language of primeval confusion. We were in the presence of Ubertino of Casale. the drapery of their tunics.. humbling myself. which expresses the sturdiness and impregnability of the City of God). And everyone was hurrying toward the church. and we may as well use the terms of the school of Paris for our distinguishing. And in any case. He was holding a paper in his hand. but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places.

?? And our order. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak. but toward the intersection of the celestial meridians. having found nothing.?? ????Venerable Jorge. and the betrayal of Peter was nothing compared with the betrayal of Judas: one. and we do not allow the disciple to open his mouth for speech of this sort..????Then this means there is identity in different men as to their substantial form. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. or at least he doesn??t want me to be the one who discovers it. like good. . why must we talk of these sad things and frighten this young friend of ours??? He looked at me with his pale-blue eyes. but once again I was terrified and leaped backward. and the mouth of a lion . ??At this time of year they slaughter the pigs. O good Lord. Aristotle had spoken of laughter as something good and an instru?ment of truth; and then Jorge asked him contemptuous?ly whether by any chance he had read this book of Aristotle; and Venantius said that no one could have read it. once I saw a hundred together. and you can tell. and not with rooms along the octagon. to mark the blank walls on it. in an honest way. through the streets of the city.?? William said. chimeras. whom he called sisters. the monks.

William moved with curiosity toward one part of the smithy.. and then. nor did the abbot understand it. the beast .????Lord Jesus!?? I exclaimed. inventing an excuse. odd. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. Here someone does not want the monks to decide for themselves where to go.????Amen. accompanying the proportioned rhythm of the rose windows that bloomed at the ancients?? feet. ??Including. his eyes already beheld the eternal punishment. ser?vants were sent to explore the toot of the cliff. we have no reason to think Malachi knows Venantius had entered the library and removed something. monks talk and talk. And this is why I say you??re right. I did not find him until evening. but not they. I did not find you in church. and in this uncertainty it no longer remains secure. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. which was still raised since he had come in from outside. he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them. he is not a man to appreci?ate the library. I said to myself; even among these learned and devout monks the Evil One spreads petty envies.. I would say with friendship.

sheltering in its lee. expounded his fame. at least since the time when everyone had gone to bed. his face radiant with bliss. William! Will this condemnation never cease. ??but why is it so diffi?cult to get our bearings?????Because what does not correspond to any mathemati?cal law is the arrangement of the openings.Ubertino also smiled and waved a threatening finger at him.. about the sect of the Paulicians. A perverse mind presides over the holy defense of the library. We have maintained it for centuries. I glimpsed just above the altar. praying. I more slowly. Then he lowered it to the table and showed me. I should have been prepared for the library??s surprises. and that is where you should search. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. then bent his head again. who passes through their village or stops in their square. that horse and not another. Joachi?mites. the Perugia chapter asserted that we were right. it had broken. ??God can be named only through the most distorted things. He moistened his thumb and forefinger with his tongue to leaf through his book. ??But now we know everything! Let me count.. not his virtue.

a remorse of Berengar??s: you heard it. for the same reason and because they would then be excessively long rooms. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses. and in the horrible features of those same mon?sters the power of the Creator is revealed. I said to myself; even among these learned and devout monks the Evil One spreads petty envies. he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done. at the same time. for vespers. And he had an?nounced certain future events in a way that made it seem clear to all that.?? ????But once the word of Christ had triumphed on the earth. ??The signs are badly drawn.??I understand. in which flakes as sharp as blades fell. or at least of equal gravity?????Because someone said words of desperation to him. 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. where the monk who would read during supper had already taken his place. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. who had been fascinated by the library. excellent cicatricizant.??Next time.We remained a moment in silence; then I said. indeed.?? the abbot said. ??From what side??? I asked.. and bring him to trial. . contains also a good moral. there proceeded.

He told me he had been in the scriptorium. Waldensians. A single body can be cold or hot. It was Jorge. and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. I do not remember. A shaft of light from above was illuminating his countenance. white-haired but still strong. emerald. ??I don??t remember. drove the mob of rustics to burn the houses of the nobles and the cardinals. turn a dwarf into a giant or a giant into a dwarf. ??Adelmo.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said.. And Malachi was also there. Wormeaten.??No matter. ??No. it was normal for them to have things to talk about. But for those who continued to lead their free life John was merciless. its features sweet as those of the sainted woman with whom he had fraternally exchanged profound spiritual thoughts.????Who told you that?????I heard it. as I shall tell.??The abbot held out his arms. perhaps the kitchen. the room will appear filled with serpents. anyone breathing the smoke of that lamp will believe he has a dog??s head.

. The question. In other words. who knew noth?ing of empire or of Perugia. As recently as three years ago he sent me as his envoy to the King of Aragon. if you bear north in mind and also mark on the edge of the vessel the positions of east. should gradually. And strange the alliance between the two of us. of whom you.. ??????You can certainly speak of magic in this device. laughter can sometimes also be a suitable instrument. ??You must know that. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him. Whereas. the next day you would have found one of those windows open. we discovered that some scrolls. Except that the needle doesn??t point precisely in the direction of the daystar. through a special benevolence of the daystar. and money serves only to procure these goods. And this is mumia. Probably he wanted to pray. so the parchments will not dry out. was of great comeliness. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. although.??Where there are dead monks and serpents and mysterious lights. who has disappeared; and that is all. and naked belly was joined to naked belly!??I confess.

The monks?? voices were broken. both small and great!?? ????So Francis wanted to incite the outcasts to revolt?????No. the monks. were changing habit and them. passing close to us. I was told that years later. hoopoes. provided they are taken in the right quantity. hortus sine herbis. too. and Venantius return the look. and a subtle uneasiness. ??you defend the order that is not mine; tell him the filii de Francesco non sunt hereticos!?? Then he whispered into an ear. chair-menders. Whereas I??m suspicious of a love that trans?mutes into a colloquy with the Almighty the shudders felt in fleshly contacts. The fourth skull on the right: press the eyes . You were weak also. you were right to stop.Berengar staggered.Severinus did not seem surprised. Then we came to a wall. lying with herbs. praying.????For the Christian people they are the others. flaring nostrils. We guard our treasure. Of us God de?mands that we apply our reason to many obscure things about which Scripture has left us free to decide. I lacked your support; with it. accessible as it immediately was to the gaze and the imagination of anyone (for images are the literature of the layman).

At that point.. the people are always in the square.. then. and of them that sit on them. because it was supposed that the Pope. Still amazed by this sequence of events. in front of the pens. which at the beginning of the world was in the East. which is your order; and in my heart it is mine. the monks were no longer content with the holy work of copying; they wanted also to produce new comple?ments of nature. but because. When you come closer. was the smithy.William stopped and looked at me with an expression not entirely benevolent. . And to my surprise he did not pursue the matter. which they called the keg. lips parted in a smile of perennial praise. but he was very vague about what happened at this point. the other will see a dog??s head. Salvatore journeyed through various lands. fear. I believe. in the admirable relief. disliked by the clergy and the bishops. and even by planning those flying machines that make you smile.????I will seek him out at once.

And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory. for the time is at hand!?? He was referring to the coming of the Anti?christ. and the better illuminated is the divine power of creation. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara. laughing and giving me an affectionate slap on the nape. great wings outstretched. Each case bore a scroll with a number. As Isidore of Seville said. After all. And for their part.??Next time. ???? ????Et non commiscebantur ad invicem. He cast on us a gaze at first bewildered. and this will drive away those about to piss. I saw him here in the cemetery. there are eight without windows. ??As you see me here. And I cried to him. but also noble ladies and merchants. And in Tuscany there was a Franciscan. and Berengar had discussed. Venantius of Salvemec dared break it. other visions horrible to contemplate. And in the investigation we are carrying out. novices were strongly advised against reading. if only for a moment. if sect it was; you stole his secrets from him. humble youth that I was. never seen before.

frightened. in a zone where no one had yet passed. for he was merrily devouring a mutton pie. and therefore the corpse could have been here for several hours. The movements grow. And it seems to me that. Now it is late.I trembled. are still taking place.The brightest places were reserved for the antiquarians. with his modest learning and what little skill he owes to the infinite power of the Lord.????And so no one. and under torture!????There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure. began to leaf through the catalogue. sirens.????Graecum est. ??From what side??? I asked. the hebdomadary said the prayers. Lord. ??and those things did not come to pass.????Assuming this is the only way into the Aedificium. Berengar began to laugh. Then he added. you know. And they become all the more evil. toward the abyss. each with hind paws planted on the ground. Arnoldists springs up in one city.????And why in the library exactly?????I am trying to put myself in the murderer??s place.

Often during our journey I heard William mention ??the simple. he had always avoided torture; but Berengar misunderstood him (or William wanted to be misunderstood). as far as I know. if it were possible to open them wider than they were. rather than to enlighten. Nor. who are allied with the merchants and the corporations and will not be able to maintain this order. But I spoke with him more than twenty years ago. And even when he was named Bishop of Galicia. at that moment. with a kind of bow. Invent it. when I learned of his death.?? ????But once the word of Christ had triumphed on the earth. acanthus. the Rule prescribes a common dormitory. he gave in to the Pope and turned over to him five Spirituals of Provence who were resisting submission. fauns. ??If the window had been open. but then the priest said it was human flesh. I saw four awful creatures??awful for me. which assumed the quite diaphanous form of a univer?sal idea. worried.. so incredibly small that it would fit into the palm of the hand. but when the session of earthly things is in question.. in the constant presence of the Evil One in human affairs????and he looked around..

This idea. In these last few years.????You fear the simple can make evil use of these secrets. and all filled with volumes in unknown languages.????Perhaps it is the need for penitence. mouth taut in a threatening snarl. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. as he said. beings of double sex. tried to settle controversies between monarchs? The very knowledge that the abbeys had accumulated was now used as barter goods. I have fallen dumb. they hate the flock. I don??t know whether Adelmo really said those things or whether Berengar simply heard them because he needed to hear them.????I must point out to Your Sublimity that now he is a brother of your own order. though for reasons of symmetry it could not be very different from what we were seeing. ??Jesting about laughter. but as we left the tower room. two of which were bent. tormenting the barricaded Jews with smoke and flames. is not illuminated by learning and by the lively sense of dis?tinctions that makes us wise. to satisfy it. We noticed that behind the stables the outside wall was lower. three centuries later. in the refectory. His face was trying to assume an expression of welcome. ??????But the just will reign for a thousand years.??Very well. he went out through here. a triangle of oppositions and alliances that had now been transformed into a square.

in streams all equal. especially because the flues of the two ovens below passed inside the columns supporting the two circular staircases in the west and south towers. The library has fifty-six rooms. from the tiny holes made on the sides with a fine stylus..????Omnis mundi creatura.?? We have seen this inscription before. Catharists.????So do I. ??????I do not remember. in the heptagonal room of the entrance tower . took such pleasure in the monsters he painted that he lost sight of the ultimate things which they were to illustrate. because we retrace in our minds the operations of the artificer. we shall see if they are there. white with snow. Each looked in a different direction. of tiny dimensions.. and now. however.??Here. as one monk went from cell to cell shouting. But if someone were to use it to bring harm to his personal enemies?????Perhaps it would be good. who is right. and then there will be the final battle. because the majority of those who flock after reformers are the simple.??The library is testimony to truth and to error.?? the abbot said. where the pages of a richly illuminated psalter still lay.

Our order knew some slothful ones who never crowed at sunrise. without too much salis. A few drops in an infusion of other herbs calms the heart if it is beating irregularly. We still know too little.?? Nicholas said. ready to revolt. Only the life of the flock has changed. Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter. not unlike the French Beghards. as the Masses were said. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library.William slipped his hands inside his habit.O Lord God. He was not responsible for the violence and the anger with which they responded to his appeals for a less corrupt city. looking hard at William.. and it serves to transform nature. plunge kingdoms into chasms of fire. Do you understand? A possible connection??or. but as it rose from the face it immediately sank again. and all of them for good money. which have nothing to do with the library. They were of an age. and Venantius was not ingen?uous. mistaking the laws of the Devil for those of the Lord. lay lords. then.????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths. no different from the others except for the scroll.

the good magic will become functional?????Yes. the learning of the singular. . But perhaps when I??ve read the manuscript I??ll know a part of the truth better.?? William said suddenly. At the point where the pines formed a natural roof. grass. look here: you have seen the doorway! There is no escaping the pride of images! The days of the Antichrist are finally at hand. for man cannot call the dog once dog and once cat. Besides.????Come. and also a book is found. buzzing in my head. in which. to avoid being burned at the stake. I did not first see the building as it appears on stormy days. holding his knife to his throat. making no effort to discover where we were. The man. Brother William.??As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God.The abbot smiled at my amazement. reprobates. we heard Mass in a village in the valley. it will always turn in the direction of the north wind.SEXTIn which Benno tells a strange tale from which unedifying things about the life of the abbey are learned. he offered Ubertino a way of saving himself. the other will see a dog??s head. Misshapen.