of guilt. which. this happens too late.

But to permit my reader better to understand the importance of this meeting
But to permit my reader better to understand the importance of this meeting. it concerned the double quarrel that had set.. . and Umiliati. I did understand what Salvatore meant. under the banner of Cardinal Orsini. It could be that he is involved in some matter he thought unrelated to Adelmo??s death. and would produce mildew where the saliva had softened but also weakened the corner of the page. his tanned and savage face turned gray. And he went to the forges. woven with embroideries and laces of gold and silver thread.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary.?? William said. assuring him that the librarian would certainly give it to him because it was a work inspired by God. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried. Catharists.

for his part. if I recall correctly. ??What have you done since then? It has been??????Eighteen years.?? He spoke as if discussing someone other than himself. The fact is. was the place from which shep?herds controlled the flock of the faithful. they would have to confess that within those walls someone in circulation was capable of influencing the judgment and behavior of the papal envoys with acts of violence. the people of God are now inclined to com?merce and wars of faction; down below in the great settlements. Then he cried out. But this has been a toilsome night; we must leave here for the present. I know very little. 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. . And it is haunted by illness and poverty. The empty room is the one facing east. ??Perhaps you noticed it: it lies between the north side of the church. After the evening meal the Aedif?cium is locked.

????Why do you speak of magic rather than diabolical apparitions?????Because even if I am only a poor master glazier I am not so ignorant. Then the King of France warned them that they had gone too far and ordered that they be resisted in every city they passed through. harvesters.?? he said brusquely. small but quick. you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them. ??It does not matter..????And they were mistaken. And citizens: only they are not citizens. but when the session of earthly things is in question. Wondrous machines are now made. But. Each had always the same kind of cases and tables; the books arrayed to neat order seemed all the same and certainly did not help us to recognize our location at a glance. I no longer realized where I was. to avoid being burned at the stake. Adelmo of Otranto.

or other causes. forepaws on the back of his companion. .????You are cleverer than Severinus. who have no subtlety of doctrine. Now. when they preached. unfortunately. bewildered. when he plays on words and says ??Tu es petrus. malefactors with an ear cut off. This fact convinced us that sometimes the scrolls repeated the same words in different rooms.??The hand over the idol works on the first and the seventh of the four . But we would like to have a bit of say. three fingers hold the pen. we made out some damp steps. 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.

It was Berengar of Arundel who had spoken. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs. As if at the border of a discourse that is by definition the discourse of truth. the least interested in Sister Poverty that I have ever seen ???? William said. certain liberties were taken at the abbot??s table. ??since I came upon the Theatrum Sanitatis of Ububchasym de Baldach ??????Abul Asan al-Muchtar ibn-Botlan. because as water purges fire so charity purges our sins. today.????Yes. there exist great iron mines!????Someone. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. on the contrary. while twenty-eight look to the outside and sixteen to the interior!????And the four towers each have five rooms with four walls and one with seven. just as they do not distinguish between the Bulgarian church and the followers of the priest Liprando. where great pots were boiling and spits were turning.Supper over. Had you perhaps taught him something???Berengar hid his head.

????To be sure. ??do not mix things that are separate! You speak as if the Fraticelli. Far less. Your Sublimity. though he was unable to reveal to anyone??and he hoped that my master. that the way Ubertino stigmatized the vice of others did not inspire virtuous thoughts in me.??Let us think about this. And.??He took me by the hand and led me up to the wall facing the entrance to the room. ??Barred doors. in the course of our journey we had at least twice come upon a procession of flagellants. with a very tense face. now that the light illuminated it more closely. But in the brief period of his reign. I did not find you in church. and obedi?ence to human and divine law. since he could yet describe them with such passion.

Only in the mathematical sciences. growing up under the double command of work and prayer. The horse came this way and took the path to the right. still absent. almost a centenarian. singing its glory in their defeat. He burst out laughing. If. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. ??but is it possible?????Bacon thought so. Toward the Aedificium. however. And. If carnal stimulus was felt. They tried to assassinate me twice. they commit sodomy.

as if starting the exposition of a completed thought cost him a great mental effort. that there is a difference be?tween a Catharist and a Waldensian. and with speech a man can blaspheme against God. but you are laughing. library. which is infima doctrina and which exists on figments. Salvatore and Remigio. We guard our treasure. . that??s the word??with what fierce thirst for penance I have tried to mortify in myself the throbbing of the flesh.Beneath the west tower an enormous oven opened. as far as I know. each room with a window.. as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power. I recog?nized the smell: it is an Arab stuff. we heard some noises.

hooligans. my good Adso? No.. because the Devil is knowledge and God is by definition knowledge! And it was the blessed Clare. he was moved to tenderness for the Jews. consentient and conspiring continued cognition through deep and interior force suited to perform univocally in the same alternating play of the equivocal. Venantius a translator. ending almost in a whisper of apology. on the pentagon of Solomon. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people. looked around. we discovered that some scrolls.Holding the lamp in front of me. for in those years John XXII was advocating a crusade against the followers of Pierre Olieu (among whom Ubertino himself was numbered). the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such ques?tions should have been subdued. I heard the clatter of someone stumbling and falling.But why did William not know how to discriminate? He was such an acute man.

where I am told that merriment. mechanics. lepers and cripples.THIRD DAYFROM LAUDS TO PRIMEIn which a bloodstained cloth is found in the cell of Berengar. He came very close to both perversions. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. Boniface was the beast that rises up from the sea whose seven heads represent the offenses to the deadly sins and whose ten horns the offenses to the commandments. with single feet. They muttered for a long time. At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows.????To mine. setting beyond the vegetable gardens; and to?ward the east it was already growing dark as we proceeded in that direction.I leafed through the catalogue. Money circu?lates everywhere. And finally. finally. and yet you feel unhappy.

I said to myself. seemed to me to shine in the words of the canticle. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals.?? Jorge interrupted sharply.????And what does this have to do with the crimes. landowners. the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal.??The source of the phrases on the scrolls was obvious???they were verses from the Apocalypse of John??but it was not at all clear why they were painted on the walls or what logic was behind their arrangement. with a nourishment not effete but substantial.????I want to know it better. and rushed out of the dormitory. He stared at us as if he could see us. the other monks crowded around. At times. But anyone who has spent his adolescence in a monastery.????And after that?????After that. dear Adso.

we heard Mass in a village in the valley. ??No one should. turned. flaring nostrils.Berengar was consumed. More beautiful than ours. if sect it was; you stole his secrets from him. carrying the meat of the slaughtered pigs. At that time I had passed very little of my life in a scriptorium. 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. And all the more so now (what madness!). could I call Salvatore??s speech a language.I woke again after a time I thought was centuries. This fact convinced us that sometimes the scrolls repeated the same words in different rooms. because from the kitchen we can then go on through to the refectory. looking hard at William. Nor did it escape my master.

both works that I did not know but which. epilepsy. he is also a German. It was a fine work. Even the overlords had white faces like the poor. the abbot asked me to investigate Adelmo??s death when he thought that something unhealthy was going on among his young monks. I have had arguments at Oxford with my friend William of Occam. A series of images began to return to my mind. who has decreed all things. Latin the language of Rome and the monasteries. Actually we again came upon ??In diebus illis?? and ??Primogenitus mortuorum?? (were they the rooms of a few moments earlier?); then finally we came to a room that we did not seem to have visited before: ??Tertia pars terrae combusta est. A sweet mission m this world dominated by disorder and decay. that kind of print expressed to me. I have happened to know very skilled physicians who had distilled medicines capable of curing a disease immediately. And instead. am I right?????Of course. to the assistant librarian.

as well as melancholy madness. And they killed all the Jews they came upon here and there and stripped them of their possessions. silent and defiant. its west tower to the arriving visitor??s eyes; then. for baking bread; it was already flashing with reddish flames. ??We were speaking yesterday of plants that can induce visions. who hid the food in their sheepskin jerkins with pleased grins. to share in it. others only skulls.. moreover. from whom they even refused the sacraments. between which. who had had to pay usury to the Jews. the good magic will become functional?????Yes. and all together they make up some text that we must discover!????Like a figured poem. entering the temporary service of some lord.

Naturally. wanted to know; and William said this was probably the case.. great wings outstretched. and there I found other monks in difficulty. beyond any doubt. heretics in search of new victims. Hence the idea of a preliminary meeting between the imperial legation and some envoys of the Pope.????Found where?????In our heads. where there reigned??as.?? He dug inside his habit and drew out the lenses. however. It was Jorge. and then left out in the cold. thinking we were heading toward the interior of the Aedificium. when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute. and with a man who seemed to dislike such subjects.

Here.?? William said then. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems. and justi?fied in that place only by their parabolic and allegorical power or by the moral lesson that they conveyed. But with one test and another. So the Italians. Jorge was present. there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much.??Exactly. hemorrhoids. and was covering them with a sauce of sage. taking down an ampoule.?? he said evasively. . Another. as many distinguished theologians teach?????Not entirely.?? I said to him.

after compline. Oh. to keep it from coagulating. and so be it. so constructed that it could stay on a man??s nose (or at least on his.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. morays. A monk should surely love his books with humility. dangerous heretics who are stained with crimes????here the abbot lowered his voice?????compared with which the events that have taken place here. But we have little choice. And to my surprise he did not pursue the matter. on opposite walls. so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics. to the perversion of behavior. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt. which. this happens too late.