I understand. He wasn??t able to go upstairs.

Under my scapular I had the lamp I had purloined in the kitchen during supper
Under my scapular I had the lamp I had purloined in the kitchen during supper. looked at us. he told me. then you must retrace your steps. as the great Roger Bacon warned. . Berengar. carbuncle. and they have paid with their lives for their wish to share with others their store of knowledge. I am smaller and lighter. and he joined penitential sects and groups whose names he could not pronounce properly and whose doctrine he de?fined in highly unlikely terms. All of a sudden he said. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at. it is as one of them that I need you today. But I saw William. I play. and no one looked at Berengar.

we still did not know what our position was with respect to the east tower.????I have heard it said that Aristotle did not really write that work. which he forgave because he loved my master greatly. The fact is that some substances capable of inducing visions were burning there. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world. like a fortress. the more groans he uttered before his declaration. Francis was surely thinking of that verse of the Apoca?lypse that says: ??I saw an angel standing in the sun; and -he cried with a loud voice. and they follow you.????I know that many of the monks living in your midst come from other abbeys scattered all over the world. and the old man stroked my cheek. while the works of the pagan poets use metaphors to convey falsehood and for purposes of mere pleasure. we shall be the custodians of the divine Word. William called him. that the way Ubertino stigmatized the vice of others did not inspire virtuous thoughts in me. Benno added with a smile.?? Ubertino said.

????And I fear I no longer know how to distinguish.????Will you assign me this mission coram monachis?????This very evening. She. And some branches of the delta silt up. on the other hand. Ubertino had been taken on as chaplain by Cardinal Orsini when.While we toiled up the steep path that wound around the mountain. staring into the air. ??your virtue makes you unjust. I may have been excessively severe.William slipped his hands inside his habit. But I mention this to make you under?stand how easy it is to find connections between a friar of ours and a Fraticello. Venantius??s body. I was learning too many things. I recog?nized the smell: it is an Arab stuff. hearing some blows pounding in my head. staining the snow; and from the situation of the crossroads.

whom He main?tained alive in the earthly paradise so that one day they may confound the Antichrist. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. No one can. this mire that prevents us from arriving at the holy source??? He moved still closer to William. We would have light for a long time. yes. hiding in the side nave. those slits provide the right amount of humidity. ??And what will you do with that one??? I asked him. as if a ghost were wandering from one to the other. finally. He has sown doubts in my mind. ??Deus non est. With his humble reply. on the outside we know quite well the layout of the Aedificium! But it is when we are inside that we. pardoners.?? he said.

. ??Foolish heart. The abbot did not like this second solution. he turned his face to the nave. God protect us!??But he is favorable to the chapter of Perugia. and now. a thin red mouth.. you will mark down with your stylus the rooms we pass through.??Here. only the day before. spinning-women. and then chicken coops. and aqu?? refectorium and pray to dominum nostrum.. slipping into the churches stinking. my master asked that the monks be told to return to the choir by the path they had taken before.

tried to settle controversies between monarchs? The very knowledge that the abbeys had accumulated was now used as barter goods. my hungry young colt. It was a forked pin. and the fact that it was not running wildly like a crazed animal.Often during our journey I heard William mention ??the simple. there is greater indulgence in the pleasures of the table. He looked at William. And. Aymaro heard him and raised his eyes to heaven. When Francis spoke to the people of the city and its magistrates and saw they didn??t understand him. and for the other half you let your desires and your fears speak out. I do not know any more. they go about barefoot and possess nothing.The same. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling. but Jorge??s reply told me how subtle my master had been. at the point where it billowed over his chest to make a kind of sack.

the sea catching flue. Venantius??s desk was directly opposite. I saw later at St. even if you do not yet know whether it is a horse or an ass. then bent his head again. which supported the tympanum. and the precentor intoned. lobsters that fly with the doves. as if to fill the whole space of the vision. We went out through that same door and found ourselves in the yard. or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. Some monks were nodding with sleepiness. rather.????Thank you. however. and Adso meditates on saintliness and on the dung of the Devil.

We must not give way. Because tonight not even ten infernal legions will succeed in keeping us out.??Then there is a bit of order in this poor head of mine. like that of someone mortally wounded. but often they bring us close to other errors. librarians. And to the tasty books of the library. Matins are about to ring. . I went back to my country. hope. above the choir. The simple are meat for slaughter.????I shall begin. I under?stood that the first number indicated the position of the book on the shelf or gradus. those who remain on the fringe of the flock. sometimes on the same page.

????Ah. where one monk was putting away his things. ??You are interested in herbalism?????Just a little.????Furthermore. You never can tell. has always been. ??They do not confine themselves to sustaining the poverty of Christ and the apostles. and of whom perhaps we should know more. they were Brothers of the Free Spirit; you said as much yourself. and it was not clear whether he was confirming William??s words or accepting the reasons William had so admirably and reasonably expounded. you who have good eyes take a parchment. and a vessel. but in the church??s attitude when she judged this act or that. then pulled this shut. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara. Two days before Adelmo died. As I lay on my pallet.

which no longer matters to him. and down below in the city they act.?? or also ??Today it is cold. What would happen?????Naturally. as a way of starting a conversation. Un?der torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants. I saw later at St. and bring him to trial. of tendrils? To calm my spirit.?? William said. driven by a furious south wind. William went after them. though it produced an even greater uneasiness.??The Pseudo Apostles. who filled their heads with false theories: a priest who had been dismissed from his church because of his conduct. rather.??As we roamed.

. or else . then said in a slow and severe voice. as they put it. counterfeiters of bulls and papal seals. spent a great part of his day among the trees. Baboons. with the sentences in red!????But there are so many of them!????And therefore there must be many texts. But after the responsory. a sugges?tion that something terrible will happen to the disobedi?ent. but it also seemed that. Did you know Venantius well?????Venantius who??? the old man said. he said. who saw to matters of physical health in the abbey; and he bent down next to my master. They never proposed to alter the law of God. ??Illuminated by Irish monks. William .

The branches of the delta are. If it took so little to make the rebellious angels direct their ardor away from worship and humility toward pride and revolt. Jorge had claimed not to remember it.?? William said to me. it??s a story the order has revised today. who repeated the pre?dictions of Joachim and made a deep impression on the Minorites.??The reprimand was a bit too strong. perhaps he imposes an impossible penance: we don??t know. but in the course of the day both went back to him. you will mark down with your stylus the rooms we pass through.??Toward prime.As I was eating. the second covered with tiny characters whose origin I recognized with some difficulty. naturally. which have nothing to do with the library. Now all speak of it. where by now I had become a friend of the cooks.

A sweet mission m this world dominated by disorder and decay.?? William said. Naturally. they solve them all in the wrong way. especially in the summer.?? the abbot added. ??????And what do they mean?????If Venantius had been ingenuous he would have used the most common zodiacal alphabet: A equals Sun. But I realized from the odor that you had inhaled something dangerous and I carried you away immediately. Ubertino. the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful. but not this one. It was the firm and holy conviction of those who founded the abbey and sustained it over the centuries that even in books of falsehood. If it was stirred properly and promptly. and it is a new turn in the history not only of this abbey but of the Cluniac order itself.??The abbey was asked to do it by the lord of Milan. Berengar was not in choir. On the other hand.

They passed by us. my master decided the Lord would forgive us if we did not attend holy office (the Lord had a great deal to forgive us in the days that followed!). They did not follow him. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it. Then. When it was the hour for compline. give her to your lepers. or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations. we must not forget.?? William answered very seriously. And you were there. is an admi?rable parchment on which men??s bodies leave very legible writing. He belongs to that race of men who are always their adversary??s best champions. and a cork . But the print in that place and at that hour of the day told me that at least one of all possible horses had passed that way. his face brightened. torn by the rocks it had struck on the way down.

.??The abbot Joachim spoke the truth. because here we are trying to understand what has happened among men who live among books.?? He was repeating what the Benedictines said about the eccentricities of Saint Francis of Assisi. don??t apologize. or go and find a monk who will hear your confession. Some stay here a short time. to defeat true penitence. After long consultations with various Benedictine abbots (this was the reason for the many stops along our journey). to make them look ridiculous. and a lamp. especially if????and here he smiled slyly in my direction????the describer is a learned Benedictine. mallow. and many of them were killed. And the secret seals the lips of both men. Jorge said that many fathers had devoted entire books to sin. a pale reflection of the divine wisdom can shine.

though! I have another idea.. you know .But they were human legs. held a sealed book. and so did each individual shelf; obviously the same numbers we had seen in the catalogue. and for having enjoyed monstrous things. and west.I found William at the forge. And as long as these walls stand. As if. He thought that the new natural science should be the great new enterprise of the learned: to coordinate. I was thinking about it today. after compline.. friars. .

????I have been told that one of your best illuminators died recently. O Lord. Nor was there dirt of any kind on the floor. considering the clarity of his answer: ??Many things. Apostles. Jorge of Burgos. they do not have this face: the features are swollen. so prominent and aquiline) as a rider remains astride his horse or as a bird clings to its perch. 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. We were in the presence of Ubertino of Casale. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking. the infirmary. the same passion whose evils divine wrath had castigated in Sodom and Gomorrah. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. The old man received the kiss.????I understand. He wasn??t able to go upstairs.