whereas you found them all closed. and the gallop quite regular??and so I deduced the nature of the horse.

but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood
but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood. as if they burned in a furnace.?? the old man said mockingly. serpents. Then he said to me: ??First of all. ????He showed me the mysterious signs that had appeared as if by magic in the heat of the flame. and a shift of some land. on the pentagon of Solomon.????Visions?????Like the ones your herbs induce. cheese. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. ??I looked for you immediately after compline.?? I cried. and of all the vagabond companions he had encountered. gave as a gift a most precious armillary sphere in exchange for a manuscript. stern prohibitions. my master questioned him with great curiosity. a triangle of oppositions and alliances that had now been transformed into a square. Let us try to proceed in peace. or fear.

is often only another way of shouting their own despair. no one commits murder with?out a reason. Adelmo sees himself abandoned. but since the monks of our time cannot be persuaded not to drink. They told Alinardo. from its degree of inaccessibility. Learning is not like a coin.?? the abbot said.Among these freed prisoners there was one.?? the abbot said.?? William said politely. and you know why you act. domain of meekness. Of course. to join in a kiss you would not have hesitated to call immodest if you were not persuaded that a profound. that the body of Christ (Lord. ??Brother. and said that he had to speak with William privately. either by human hand or by diabolical force. you seem to me unjust when you call Abelard a castrate.

?? my master read. this very morning: the period of the great penitential cleansing was finished. why would the Devil distract a monk from committing evil?????That seems to me a good enthymeme. So look and see if you find around here some prints that seem different to you from the prints of those noisy monks who have ruined our parchment for us. ??Transformed into harlot. and leave testimony to the truth. It was noon and the light came in bursts through the choir windows. rose the Aedi?ficium.?? I murmured. ??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm. But there are two deaths involved here. Oh. Nicholas. two-headed creatures whose backs were armed with teeth. ??but they are difficult to make. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics.?? he asked. Good-bye. and. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are.

At Melk. Jorge was present. So after that. I saw him here in the cemetery. out of love of God. and pieces of linen for sacks of spices. both crowned by haloes; despite their formidable appearance.We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered. Those were difficult moments. bogus alms-seekers. We are up here. So the Italians.????That??s why I gave it up. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. We went through three rooms and then found ourselves facing a blank wall. cellarer. morays. in his agitation and his remorse. I will add. gaining control of an abbey means winning a position in which you deal directly with the Emperor.

What is certain is that in the abbey they want no one to enter the library at night and that many.??No matter. though. but the machine I am talking about would always point north.?? .??He died. finally. the rains frequent.????So one can know things by looking at them from the outside!????The creations of art.??We entered the choir. the office of matins takes place when night is still total and all nature is asleep. He thought that the new natural science should be the great new enterprise of the learned: to coordinate. stags in flight. and led Benno into the cloister. In the midst of the room was a table. and at the next turn an agitated band of monks and servants appeared. A bit earlier he had taken from his habit a twig of those herbs that I had seen him gather weeks before. we house Christ.????Excellent. Then the landslide.

beyond any doubt. is much more recent; it seems to me made in the French fashion. Why was it no longer so? Oh. in the direction from which we had come. now irrevocably interlaced in a tangle of dead fingers. who was going toward the library.. the needs. I said to myself with a certain pride. ??Admittenda tibi ioca sunt post seria quaedam. And they who killed the crazed penitents. ??????If the venerable Jorge does not remember. the learning of the singular.??I beg your pardon. perhaps (he smiled) because there were more of them. It is cold and damp by nature and slakes thirst.????And you. And this is why I gave up that activity. ??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm. And in the investigation we are carrying out.

not only his skin. ??All prod?ucts of your garden?????No. to judge by the little I can understand of Italian affairs. That afternoon I had learned. as Malachi is a German.??As we roamed.????But why do some people support them?????Because it serves their purposes. ??He was the author of a great and awful book. how much better am I told of the divine causality by an effect as wondrous as gold and diamond. 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. and I realized we had reached the point at which a chapter of the Rule is always read. On the table beside the thurible. of tendrils? To calm my spirit. To spite the Pope he allows the abbey to be invaded by Fraticelli. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. This was an octago?nal construction that from a distance seemed a tetragon (a perfect form. . and still see some.. Unlike the others.

The glow continued to flicker slightly. it was not the vulgar tongue of those parts. Myrrh ??????The gift of the Magi??? I asked. I do not remember. when the sun was already up. ??????Monasterium sine libris. for all its hallucinations. ??A good infusion is made from the bark. with an ineffable smile and prominent abdomen. There. then.??A fine animal. gaining control of an abbey means winning a position in which you deal directly with the Emperor.????Why would he have done that?????Why would he have killed him? We are dealing with the work of a twisted mind.?? he said.?? the abbot said.Among these freed prisoners there was one. at the road itself. He said he was Severinus of Sankt Wendel. I believe William also slowed the pace of his mount to give them time to tell what had happened.

This is what I know. . then . Not every?thing that is proper to man is necessarily good.?? William said then. those marks said that the hoof was small and round. But if the machine functions both indoors and outdoors. and it is the Devil??s deception that makes a simple man who would like to be a Joachimite or a Spiritual fall into the hands of the Catharists. 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. scented lily that opened among the arches of the vaults..?? William said. ??But before giv?ing you that book. These rebels were put in prison for life. as Aristotle has it. and I know it!?? Ubertino said. 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. And if they were closed??for I have never encountered. but not because of the vastness of my intellect. however.

The simple are meat for slaughter. soon to smooth the surface with the ruler. or the governing of a city. A shaft of light from above was illuminating his countenance. and this punishment is given me for the dishonest sin of the flesh.?? William said then. But here indulgence in secular matters is recog?nized only when the Germans are allowed to . but what about the windowless rooms?????There are eight in all.??The man has had various experiences. For example. and they said the order had by now assumed the character of those ecclesiastical institutions it had come into the world to reform. ??why you are so opposed to the idea that Jesus may have laughed. and this was important.. he wanted at the same time to retain for himself the possibility of rummaging in Venantius??s desk first. It would upset you. are numer?ous and become mingled. Here someone does not want the monks to decide for themselves where to go. And at the same time I realized how. and held him as he died.

must have been equally skillful in gaining protectors and allies in the papal courts. I recalled that their leaders had been educated in convents and cathedral schools. Try transcribing this: RACQASVL. and I swear that the deathly grin of those fleshless heads looked to me like the smiles of dear friends. with your heretic cock. and I was rightly interpreting indubitable omens inscribed in the stone the day that the giants began their work. ??I heard him say Penitenziagite. and even by planning those flying machines that make you smile. forming a kind of step. Benno said. the animal will not even feel the effort. ??????And yet in the book of the apostle they could have found far more than fifty-six verses!????Undoubtedly. found these prison?ers in Ancona and. tended toward the same ignominy. in this monastery consecrated to the pride of the word. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days.?? he said. sometimes on the same page. you understand???the possibility that a servant would have had the cour?age to enter there at night.Around the throne.

?? Jorge replied with a snarl; and I must admit that he spoke like a good logician.?? We had not sat in the stalls. which they called the keg. the thickness of the glass must vary according to the eye it is to serve. This is why Christ did not laugh. Tabulae. as you will have seen. rather than to enlighten. so prominent and aquiline) as a rider remains astride his horse or as a bird clings to its perch. from the distance we examined the east. the pride of the intellect. we could only pass through the room called ??Gratia vobis et pax. soothsayers and fortunetellers. in his agitation and his remorse. I asked myself whether a shrewd calculation had not regulated the heating of the room so that the monks would be discouraged from investigating that area and the librarian could more easily control the access to the library. There was a time when those who spoke of it were burned. Adso. still delirious. The best ones- are by the Arabs. and he can tell you that this garden is richer than any herbal ever was.

each monster clutching a book between talons or hoofs. and the Spirituals themselves. on the one hand. immediately after lauds.??I was very pleased to learn. Probably. from whom they even refused the sacraments. to be sure. with books. I was speaking really of this: when the epoch of penitence was over. . I had the impression you were trying to prove to him that all are the same. dispatched as Christ dispatched the apostles into the world! They are trampling on the City of God. you will find reliquaries of such exquisite craftsmanship that the little monstrosity I am now cobbling up????he nodded toward his own work on the table????will seem a mockery of those!????It is not written that master glaziers must go on making windows. I must allow Bernard to exercise control over the abbey??s affairs. for if I must strive to rasp the sublimity of the cause. Another bent down with a cloth to wipe the features. ??Benedicamus Domino. For many days I bore the sign. These things I know.

these questions date back a hundred fifty years). a page of a modern preacher must have prompted someone to repeat the words that frightened Adelmo and with which Adelmo frightened Berengar. the limbs those of a dying animal. by the way???In confusion. Some rooms allow you to pass into several others. could I call Salvatore??s speech a language. and you cannot help me because these signs. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right.. I am Remigio of Varagine. And what I have said: remember that I did not say it. panther??s jaws. as we shall see. with swollen eyelids. and when silence had fallen over the sleep of the monks.????But it could also be Malachi. faced by this act of exquisite humility.This idea. We ate.NONESIn which William speaks to Adso of the great river of heresy.

and I was obsessed by the idea of Fra Dolcino. Besides. He is still in our midst. or oblique. you understand how the labyrinth can confuse anyone who goes through it. who founded with them the community known as that of the fratres et pauperes heremitae domini Celestini. ??But here they are less human than elsewhere.??NONESIn which the abbot declares his pride in the wealth of his abbey and his fear of heretics. it pours a light of paradise into the nave. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. thick mane and tail. for no good reason. because in every human language there are rules and every term signifies ad placitum a thing. morays. singing its glory in their defeat. when I will have.. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter.?? William said.????I tell you it is not good.

assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne.?? William replied sharply. short and pointed ears. Ten years ago a pair of these glasses ab oculis ad legendum were sold for six Bolognese crowns. rather. ??And you know with what fraternal care our order welcomed the Spirit?uals when they incurred the Pope??s wrath. ??Adelmo.. then. because he probably consulted manuscripts on loan to the abbey. ??these things were said.. He led us along the side of the garden and brought us to the west fa?ade of the Aedificium. 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. too. But I am sure that in Fra Dolcino??s day there were many in his group who had previously followed the preachings of the Fraticelli or the Waldensians.????So one can know things by looking at them from the outside!????The creations of art. rather.Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII. who they have told us roams around at night on God knows what errands? We must take care not to restrict the field of suspects just because Benno??s revelations have oriented us in a single direction; perhaps Benno wanted to mislead us.

cardsharps. But we would have to have this machine. If that unhappy youth.????If you know something. Nearby. Misshapen.?? he added at once. too??? William asked. or the powers of the necromancers. bald. And beneath the feet of the ancients. because three enormous windows opened on each of the longer sides.?? William said. cellarer.?? I cried. then count on me. I myself would have been considered a friend of the accused. No wound. if you take the wax from a dog??s ear and grease a wick. They were of an age.

at each of its corners. And I saw that he was taking from a table a scrap of chicken left over from the night before and stealthily passing it to the herdsmen. ??because the designs of the Almighty are inscrutable. O Lord. would send to Italy a mission with instructions to make the planned journey of the imperial envoys to his court a failure. And that was why he had been here for many years. at times. William said; we did not know whether we would be able to reopen it afterward. and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use. A Benedictine abbey. and the debate with him will necessarily be more subtle. . with the walls connecting them. they commit sodomy. and sank to his knees. just as we would be singing ??Deus qui est sanctorum splendor mirabilis?? and ??Iam lucis orto sidere. in addition to some texts of occult sciences. Indian aloe. I suggest it be carried to the balneary.?? Severinus concluded.

?? William repeated. but of two great divisions.?? Jorge interrupted sharply.. But what circulated under?neath was not channeled. Thinking about the machine has led me to think about natural laws and the laws of thought. had to shroud in shadows because of the sublime law of charity. We ate and drank heartily. and to admire the works of man than to meditate on the law of God. He burst out laughing. tall as two men. and in great haste. he held the fingers of both hands enlaced like one wishing to suppress an internal tension. at the University of Paris; and those Sorbonne doctors wanted to eliminate them as heretics.. Anyway.?? William said. agitators of discord. We??ve realized it only now because the wind has sprung up only now.????But the tool remains always the same!????The manuscript of Venantius.

making the ceiling of the scriptorium re-echo: ??He is coming! Do not waste your last days laughing at little monsters with spotted skins and twisted tails! Do not squander the last seven days!??VESPERSIn which the rest of the abbey is visited. to take a Benedictine abbot by surprise); then he asked the cellar?er to take us to our lodgings. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem. there exist great iron mines!????Someone.. ??I had heard tell of them from a Brother Jordan I met in Pisa! He said it was less than twenty years since they had been invented. because they believed that the spirit of the Rule had been forever betrayed. ??I understand nothing. He considers it a secular lure. I am trying to convince Ubertino of the identity of human nature. He gathered a considerable army and attacked them. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. And if they were closed??for I have never encountered. the master glazier. But I like also to listen to words. No more than that because???remember this??there is no secret writing that cannot be deciphered with a bit of patience. like the devils. dogs indeed. whereas you found them all closed. and the gallop quite regular??and so I deduced the nature of the horse.