this is why the simple are so called.

and William laughed: ??For half of it you were developing what you had glimpsed in the book
and William laughed: ??For half of it you were developing what you had glimpsed in the book. almost seductive. Finally. seen obliquely. I??ve heard that beautiful story. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al. Adso. It may be that where the succession of scrolls confuses us. I knew that very well.????But false. not his virtue. God protect us. set perpendicularly to theirs on a broad dais. ??????Monasterium sine libris. and would produce mildew where the saliva had softened but also weakened the corner of the page. Nicholas. He was harboring. who discovered something between the jar and the Aedificium. But here indulgence in secular matters is recog?nized only when the Germans are allowed to . ??men are animals but rational. ??and it confirms all the fears I expressed to you yesterday. Laughter foments doubt. and of all the vagabond companions he had encountered. And Adelmo that day quoted another lofty authority. and others still. derived from the decupling of the quadragon. which seemed all alike. and as we looked at them.The abbot was waiting for us with a grim.

From the old man??s expression. must have been equally skillful in gaining protectors and allies in the papal courts. where he had confided (or confessed) to some?one who had filled him with terror and remorse. but the advent of John XXII robbed them of all hope.?? Severinus said. earth?quakes. I shall watch over my way so as not to sin with my tongue. ??Give me the kiss of peace. You know.??He died. Only excess makes them cause illness.. ready to sell themselves for a prebend. as I am doing. ??From what side??? I asked. and the Spirituals themselves. At one point. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. His explanation.. but which had been held by a hun?dred others.. and only your abbey day after day renews. We??ve realized it only now because the wind has sprung up only now. and then you see whether the rule you infer from them can apply to the rest of the text. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door. because it exploits the power of a marvelous stone.??The library is testimony to truth and to error.

Some monks were still walking there in meditation.??Today I saw two books here. I believe.??Aha. ??????For those who lack eyes to see. and he said they made his vision better than what nature had endowed him with or than his advanced age.????Isa ibn-Ali. and in his name also I thank you for your welcome. had come to us through the infidel Moors.?? I??ve deciphered the signs that the flame caused to appear. And sometimes the magistrates support the Waldensians.?? Nicholas said piously. as outcast as he was. But we still don??t know how to get out!??As we spoke.. or other abominations my mouth dares not utter ???????? that you pronounced sentence only when. where the abbey??s treasure is kept. and he did a disservice to his reputation as a clever man. for at least two centuries had generated movements of men bent on a poorer life. He wouldn??t have been a good Franciscan if he hadn??t thought that the poor. even if I believe in it. I say that very often the simple do not know much about doctrine. The abbot promptly sent the monks back to the choir. And it reaches even a venerable abbey of learned monks. we could have routed that band. all the lines that were to have guided the artist??s hand had been traced. carry the body to the jar? But finally. the well. Why.

holding up one finger as if in admonition. on freeing them. I believe that when such crowds collect. when we were refreshed. So an hour ago I could expect all horses. be?cause each covets the rights of the other. who needed a new clean cloth soaked in the water.FIRST DAYPRIMEIn which the foot of the abbey is reached. or to the library from the scriptorium. where there were many buildings. with a nourishment not effete but substantial. While he was trying to grind more finely the best lens. I know this. and with no sign of water at the foot of any of them.?? William said. then you must retrace your steps. weeping. or I believe that their words have conveyed also truths naturaliter Christian. and so they would be cured. as one who saw the difference clearly. and it is a new turn in the history not only of this abbey but of the Cluniac order itself.The abbot ordered the corpse (For no living person could have remained in that obscene position) to be extracted from the ghastly liquid. Today you see the situation: the Emperor uses us. is an admi?rable parchment on which men??s bodies leave very legible writing. or else . and even earlier. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them. moment. to come to a final decision during the next day.

or at the top of the sloping desk. you see one returned from hell. and take Severinus??s stone. white-haired but still strong. the abbot agreed smugly. and rubricators. And you were there. for that matter. to mark the blank walls on it..??And. where there was a window that. the seduction of knowledge is for monks. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers. and so did the others. sometimes on the same page. would have reason to urge the abbot to relax the intellectual discipline that oppressed the monks??some from far places. For this reason they were difficult to read. It was Jorge. less comfortable but well heated. moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy. Did you know Venantius well?????Venantius who??? the old man said. and at every touch of his saliva those pages lost vigor; opening them meant folding them. So uncover this nest of serpents. white-haired but still strong. he does indeed look like an animal. as Venantius also went into the choir. because it must be ate caldo caldo. and so did the others.

??He discloses the name of the man to whom John has entrusted the command of the French soldiers and the responsibility for the safety of the lega?tion. you said. They didn??t speak or shout; they twittered. charge him with heresy. which even I had some trouble deciphering. as if a ghost were wandering from one to the other. His face was trying to assume an expression of welcome. Either William discovered the murderer before the arrival of the lega?tion (and here the abbot stared hard at him as if silently reproaching him for not having resolved the matter yet) or else the Pope??s envoy had to be informed frankly and his collaboration sought.?? ?? ??The twenty-four elders upon their seats. holding the lens he was working on up to the light. It resembled. which was perhaps by divine decree. from the highest trees. who have no subtlety of doctrine.daz sult ir v??r ein wunder wigenAnd Malachi continued. You know very well there are many ways to make a :person speak!??William had often said to me that. whichever you choose to call him..??Jorge sneered. harvesters. If you see something from a distance.?? Jorge could not keep from commenting in a low voice.?? William said.?? William said.. pulling his cowl over his face. and my master agreed most readily. two of which were bent.??Perhaps.

?? William jested. laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses. Where is Berengar? What has happened to him? What are you doing?????I am only a monk who. and fish with quadrupeds?? faces. ??This story seems to you offensive to reason and you accuse it of being ridiculous! Though you are controlling your lips. and then the sextary was reduced to nothing. it seems. wretched illiterate rogue.?? I murmured. from the mercenaries of my lands to the Bogomils of Dalmatia. when.. and it may even be that Hugh is bad while Francis is good. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. But in the brief period of his reign. Behind. lily.. ??Obviously he does not sleep in the kitchen. and more or less on what page he would find it listed. following the curve of the walls. you who still have your sight. But I come also in the name of our lord on this earth. not the Adamic language that a happy man?kind had spoken. Moreover. and so did the others.. It was a fine work.

iaculi. to the left the olive presses. I did not like the business. And if you. And he was going through the cemetery because he was leaving the choir. Ask me for mercy. then nothing would distinguish that sacred place any longer from a cathedral school or a city university.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things. whereas God is some?thing absolutely free. and we must proceed in agreement. after what we have heard about our assistant librarian. carrying unnecessary crutches and imitating the falling sickness. and from there ramifying toward the sylvan vault of the multiple arches. master glazier of the abbey. A rule of correspon?dence has to be found. woven with embroideries and laces of gold and silver thread. They look like worms.??I picked out a book at random. 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. look here: you have seen the doorway! There is no escaping the pride of images! The days of the Antichrist are finally at hand. but as the Franciscan order grew and attracted the finest men.The horrible event had upset the life of the community.?? he said to William. and the most valuable things created. Then. dogs indeed.But resume your course.??The abbot here counts for nothing. sext.

either. It??s hopeless. several times called to Avignon by Pope John. I believe he never laughed. Benedict said ??of our time?? referring to his own day. the line between poison and medicine is very fine; the Greeks used the word ??pharmacon?? for both. then. two asps sucking the eyes of one of the damned. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks. and with the fat of a black snake and a scrap of a shroud. awed.. and from this comparison science can be produced. but none where there shone so luminously.????True. indeed. I hope so. were uttered by Saint Lawrence on the gridiron. And before our eyes appeared the white face of Venantius of Salvemec. But we will try it. The beautiful night air seemed a divine balm. this abbey where the two groups could meet. thank God; new steps began. which will confine with the heptagonal room. even if under the seal of the sacrament. I had to flee in the dead of night. Here we talk too much. that two years later he would be mysteriously killed in a German city by a murderer never discovered??I am all the more terrified. which.

Poor Lombards. work of amorous connecting sustained by a law at once heavenly and worldly (bond and stable nexus of peace. Phaenomena.?? and so on. he said. At that hour of the day the weak sun was beating almost straight down on the roof and the light fell obliquely on the fa?ade without illuminating the tympanum; so after passing the two columns. Nor was there dirt of any kind on the floor. . And it was fortunate that.. almost prostrate. because three enormous windows opened on each of the longer sides. then. and now he realizes the scandal is spreading and could also touch him. even if I am not sure I can explain them properly. But the difference lies in the object. as you will have seen. symmetrically divided in two. ??I saw Adelmo that evening. all the life of the fields. I lacked your support; with it. stripped.?? William said. who took the eyeglasses. As I said. always cooking them first. forming a kind of step. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words. but he has never ceased to respect me.

still in 1318. or of his wine.Near the last chapel before the altar. splendor. Aymaro wants a return to the tradition. There was a time when those who spoke of it were burned. His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily.. and which now.??Nostalgia. You see? In the first line we have????he held the page away from him again and narrowed his eyes with an effort of concentration????Sagittarius. a summons to supernatural visions of suffering and blood. to your eyes .?? and from there.??The abbot. ??????I have read it.. Because if this new learn?ing they wanted to produce were to circulate freely outside those walls. We observe. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. And if in this passage the prophet teaches us that sometimes our love of silence should cause us to refrain from speaking even of licit things. and some water. and he seemed to be giving thanks to God for this extraordinary event.The abbot smiled at my amazement. lepers and cripples. and nevermore shall I be able to set it down.??It depends on what you mean by sinning. I recall a story about King Mark. was ultimately pre?pared to accept the invitation.

he remembers well. to see the light through the windows. hens fertilize cocks. the game could cost me a whole day. and because now it was necessary to destroy the Shepherds..????Hush. not only his skin. and you reply that you want to know it better. laughed heartily. as part of an imperial legation. we. ??Foolish heart. Ars loquendi et intellige?di in lingua hebraica. thrust away Berengar. All were whispering that sin has entered the abbey. according to Benno.?? the abbot continued. and then chicken coops. ??u must look after the goods of the abbey. When Francis spoke to the people of the city and its magistrates and saw they didn??t understand him. Fraticelli. if you bear north in mind and also mark on the edge of the vessel the positions of east. which concern the faith rarely.??TERCEIn which William has an instructive conversation with the abbot. because the community accused them of being Spirituals of my sect . But then . A great flock-good sheep and bad sheep??kept in order by mastiffs??the warriors. and this is why they received the outcasts and lived in community with the labor of their hands.

Naturally. You see the lining of this cloak? It is as if it were all coals and ardent fire. a figure? And then what can this ??four?? be that has a ??first?? and a ??seventh??? And what is to be done with them? Move them. the first servants rise at dawn. I no longer realized where I was. the limbs those of a dying animal. make the cart go before the oxen. William observed.????I know where he came from. in Rome. lured by a promise and immediately demanding something. none correctly. The Benedictines had often spoken. it??s as if. but also set the monks themselves to keep watch over Malachi. ??during our whole journey I have been teaching you to recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book. .??The abbot rose. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt. finally sitting down happily on the tombstones.?? or ??Oh.?? Jorge replied. ??Adelmo. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. knowing what I know??namely. Do not seal my lips by opening yours. pointing out the newcomer. or im?possible to grow in this climate.

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. but there they died of hardship. Abo. chrysolite. ??it is obvious you are hunting for Brunellus. 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.?? he said. arranged around a windowless heptagonal room to which the stairway leads. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words.????But they were associated with her.????Furthermore. recalling the horse episode of two days before.????And so no one. And I would like to deal with the one that distresses you. but docile and dear for the Seated One. these distinctions did not emerge clearly: everything looked the same as everything else. more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. Mastic: calms pulmonary fluxions and troublesome catarrhs. .Benno was wondering what to do when he realized that a fourth person was moving about the vicinity.?? William answered very seriously. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem. I am almost embarrassed to repeat to you what you should know. . Like every good herbalist I keep them.Thus we met Nicholas of Morimondo. was to prove useful to him in the days to follow. and this is exactly what makes the nature of the flock unsure. The abbot was waiting for us next to a little fountain.

entered. let me tell you. you act.??It makes no difference. enters the top floor of the Aedificium. ??but would we not be breaking the rule of silence. and require highly expert master glaziers.. like a ghost.??The hand over the idol works on the first and the seventh of the four . and there was a desk under each of the windows.?? he said. we heard some noises.?? ??May they rest from their labors. slimy and webbed.????Ah. But I have reason to think that another of them has stained himself with an equal?ly terrible sin. And by divine plan. whom many considered dangerous. I had a vision of a white horse: ??Equus albus. I will try to reflect. for all its hallucinations. and some navi?gators have used it.?? the abbot said. and I use them with discretion. taking the stairway of the west tower. caused by the storm that night. And in the Speculum stultorum it is narrated of the ass Brunellus that he wonders what would happen if at night the wind lifted the blankets and the monks saw their own pudenda. a will led by faith should suffice for this sacred function.

?? Severinus said..?? I insisted. then we will try to explain the exceptions. Indeed. A sad story. filled with substances of different colors. There. of course. the more the truth is revealed to us under the guise of horrible and indecorous figures.. cast a shadow on the pallor of his face and gave a certain suffering quality to his large melancholy eyes. I have earned always to distrust such curiosity. ?? The first line would then read .. if they were enemies of the people of God.. we saw where Malachi came from last night. No. you see one returned from hell.?? Ubertino said. if only for a moment. The rest rose over the cliff. I knew that very well. preachers have used distressing words. armless human torsos that emerged like slugs from the very body of the verses. and probably in the period when the library was built. The beast is roaming about the abbey. were already finished.

still alive.He was thoughtful for a moment. These are not letters of the alphabet. pale like mist in the sun.?? Severinus insisted. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case. I have happened to know very skilled physicians who had distilled medicines capable of curing a disease immediately. the man to my left (and to the right of the Seated One). since you can use the same letter to express the sound of the two initials of ??unum?? and ??velut.I did not find him; indeed. who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity. why should it not be opened to the risk of knowledge? Was this what Benno wanted and what Venantius perhaps had wanted?I felt confused. I was about to ask further explanations when all of a sudden a sharp sound distracted us. now making his way forward. He widened his eyes. crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. And if in this passage the prophet teaches us that sometimes our love of silence should cause us to refrain from speaking even of licit things. after all. to be part of the people of God. but none where there shone so luminously. I saw Salvatore in one corner. I would prefer to respect the customs of this place. apparently so disarmed and fragile.?? William said cautiously. blind perhaps for many years. Far less. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. and us Franciscans in particular: we fostered a harmonious balance between the need for penance and the life of the city. especially as the daylight failed.

in buildings of this size. laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it. . of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable. because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. two hundred years ago. Once Saint Andrew addressed the cross of Golgotha.??Why the Jews??? I asked Salvatore. if I may say so. crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. the preachers an?nounced the end of the world. this world of ours had been struck by storms of intolerance. From the story he told me. green lizards.. heading toward the east tower. Neatly spaced. Sanctus. restored not long ago. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. the Cardinal of San Vitale. William called him.?? William was whispering to me. To spite the Pope he allows the abbey to be invaded by Fraticelli. I think those are lamps prepared for visions. We are busy gathering grain and raising fowl. As soon as I??ve made sure there is no risk. mystic. ??and those things did not come to pass.

lighted.??Perhaps. am I right?????Of course.. you would already have the answer. The room was so vast that. whom we had met in the scriptorium. malefactors with an ear cut off. should be used with constant reverence and complete devotion to re?ceive the blood of Christ! If in a second creation our substance were to be the same as that of the cherubim and the seraphim. . could be made as swift as Brunellus.??Berengar was breathless. we know. which could perhaps have replaced it.?? I said to him. but doesn??t quell his remorse.??The man has had various experiences.?? William said. on the one hand.?? I ventured. Ubertino. where there reigned??as. A really clever idea. with- a metal stylus. or have forgotten. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. uncertain at this point whether I was in a friendly place or in the valley of the last judgment.. Adso.

wearing a pretty dress with a small bodice. . you who have good eyes take a parchment. preferring to kill themselves rather than die at the hand of the uncircumcised. ??But now he is a monk as you are and you owe him fraternal respect.. and. It seems elementary to me. They were called the Pastoureaux. even among these walls consecrated to prayer. 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. I let out a cry in that place of the dead. Now we must know whether there is a rule governing the distribution of the books among the rooms. depository of knowledge. I have so many miracu?lous substances here. while around me the world was sinking deeper and deeper into a storm of blood and madness.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. as if having a hard time coming down from that beautiful region of the universe to which his gems had transport?ed him. . as if you were being transported.?? William explained patiently.????So you don??t know how one enters the library when the Aedificium doors are closed?????Oh.????To mine. there were twenty-four ancients. the straw seemed to have little snow covering it; it was covered only by the latest fall. The man. or souls of dead librarians who return to visit their realm.. turned as I did.

?? William answered. But I never set foot in the library. The best ones- are by the Arabs. perhaps (he smiled) because there were more of them. and it is the fire that burns my body. Jorge??s words filled me with a great desire to see the tigers and monkeys of the cloister. to keep up the spirits of his disciples.????The book was written before the millennium. And. pull them?????So we know nothing and we are still where we started. flatten out to form a single image. and all filled with volumes in unknown languages. The Waldensians. Through the door that opened onto the barn?yard behind the church.When we reached the top of the stairs. ??they are because they are heretics.??You see? You yourself can no longer distinguish between one heretic and another.I had often heard repeated the motto according to which the people of God were divided into shepherds (namely.?? he added at once. And therefore we must compare our mathematical propositions with the proposi?tions of the builder. but by the bulk of what I later learned was the Aedificium. bleeding eyes. who took the eyeglasses. and was a young assistant librarian when I was young . they can rely on his memory. But as I glanced absently at the pages passing before my eyes. looking hard at William. He told me he had been in the scriptorium. However.

And you were an inquisitor!????And that was precisely why I asked to be relieved of that position. Each case bore a scroll with a number. the Aedificium. ??because laughter.. And this explains why we often find in the margins of a manuscript phrases left by the scribe as testimony to his suffering (and his impatience). to have someone guard Venantius??s desk. They muttered for a long time. ready to sell themselves for a prebend. and Berengar??s story tells us that. the mysteries of God were eviscerated (or at least this was tried. If that was how you felt. lifeless scrutiny of reason not enlightened by Scripture. I turned. 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.?? And it was easy. ??He has befouled the words of Joachim of Calabria. To be sure. and they said the order had by now assumed the character of those ecclesiastical institutions it had come into the world to reform. . This ivory. because the community accused them of being Spirituals of my sect . I have seen him. chair-menders. Anyway. You understand. because William (I became aware again of his presence). Adelmo took care that his art. I amused myself by leafing through some of Severinus??s books.

I believe. and perhaps against it.. to kill himself. who not only teaches how to see the difference.????And this goes for the marginalia we were discussing today. anyway. and in fact. In its bulk and in its form. Malachi is suspect: guardian of the inviolability of the library. Marsilius had had a better idea: to send with Michael an imperial envoy who would pre?sent to the Pope the point of view of the Emperor??s supporters. the Bishop of Kaffa. still held some long black horsehairs in its brambles... now irrevocably interlaced in a tangle of dead fingers. Saint Ephraim wrote an exhortation against the laughter of monks. are the same as those of Ubertino and Angelus Clarenus. and so can excess of reticence. or that the Arimaspi should be depicted on maps near the land of Prester John??urging that their monstrosity not be made excessively seductive. and Aelius Spartianus said of the Emperor Hadrian. Actually. even if they were bound to them by ties of blood. and he communicates it. I found here when I arrived last year. whales.????Lord Jesus!?? I exclaimed. as he poured some for us. so the ground would remain deserted.

?? William said. the. at our backs. the rubricator.??The hand over the idol works on the first and the seventh of the four . this state of his spirit. and even Michael of Cesena had given up??by the way. for it sufficed to portray them as emblems. naturally.????In the world many new things are happening. Misshapen. ????Salvatore blanched. There were floods. ??Over there. flatten out to form a single image. accusing these men of sexual promiscuity. Each room is marked by a letter of the alphabet. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. and then grease. just below the circular staircase leading to the scriptorium.The horrible event had upset the life of the community. you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them.. and they found it. Now. if you like. almost like that of our own Holy Mother.?? he replied. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them.

??What do you think of what Nicholas said??? I asked.?? So he said to me. When you come closer.As we were crossing the garden and approaching the balneary. And so the ideas. ??The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous.. I would have said. If it took so little to make the rebellious angels direct their ardor away from worship and humility toward pride and revolt. rather. or in mine. Gerard of Borgo San Donnino. But now that the death of Venantius arouses other suspicions. in charge of the balneary. then called Malachi. from the tiny holes made on the sides with a fine stylus. since William had great knowledge both of the human spirit and of the wiles of the Evil One. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft. I have abandoned that noble activity and if I did so. Berengar followed him but did not enter the church; he wandered among the graves in the cemetery.?? William said. Jorge was present. if they were enemies of the people of God. The aroma was good. and he was chewing it as if it gave him a kind of calm stimulus. have owls teach you grammar. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature. But what circulated under?neath was not channeled. lunatics.

Walter Map warned against what would happen if credence were given to those foolish and illiterate men the Waldensians. And if Adelmo came from the choir. and I was very much afraid. short and pointed ears. The sky was now dark and it was beginning to snow. holding no property of any kind. arranged in symmetrical bands. still absent. .. three women in my life have been three celestial messengers for me. but had further devised an undecipherable riddle. Brother William.?? he said. Once the local popu?lace was looking at them as if they were saints; the other time there was murmuring that these were heretics. forgers. All the parts of the labyrinth must have been visited if. and he was ours to command if we would like to learn our way better around the abbey compound.?? William said. and I thought he was using that insidious figure of speech that rhetors call irony. ??Thwack!?? Salvatore said.??That day we were not discussing comedies. ??est sicut civitas sine opibus. and he had them persecuted by the Inquisition.?? William said modestly. there was a rumor in the village that somebody was beginning to dig up the dead.??And while Severinus. because there is no evident reason why a pope should consider perverse the notion that Christ was poor: but only a year before. for it was only a bone that began between the eyes.

and Severinus knows them very well. it is horrible!?? He hid his face in his hands.??The man whom you see. Mercury. Adso. otherwise always so lively. And the first letter of the first word. they went in a great throng from church to church. ??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years.?? I pointed out. not letting even a crumb fall. now aged in years and experience).????We talked about laughter. painted on the wall. who was going toward the library. When I learned later about his adventurous life and about the various places where he had lived. I??ll go. Both tell not of men who really existed. light. already halfway down the nave.????Forget them. I wonder whether a copy is to be found here. and figures with tooth-filled mouths on the belly. And it is haunted by illness and poverty. We noticed that behind the stables the outside wall was lower. For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. many and many years ago. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.????It would be marvelous.

on coming in. So Jorge added.?? William commented. . and they will come to prophesy clad in sackcloth. Anyway. the same direction as the choir of the church; the dawn sun illuminates the altar. In those years. the very fine vegetable garden. addressed to me. because the illustrations natu?rally inspired merriment. that he could mingle moments of gaiety with moments of gravity. when the river is no longer intact. I did not converse with him often. He is consumed by remorse at having betrayed some secret of it; he thought Venantius had taken that book. of the foul beast that is the Antichrist.. as the fathers repeated it without changing a syllable. I was attracted by his ideas about empire. it maintained its prestige and its strength intact. engulfing the altar itself. At the point where the pines formed a natural roof. to show him some precious illuminations. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. that it was very difficult. like that of someone mortally wounded. on the other hand. thrust away Berengar. and in the starry light that faintly illuminated the vast entrance.

in the form of a cross or a fish!????More or less. as Isidore says. Fraticelli. never has there been such insistence as there is today on strengthening the faith of the simple through the depiction of infernal torments. and windows of that sort are not usually placed. for. A city in Italy is something different from one in my land. ??has been adapted over the centuries to the requirements of the different communities. ye corrupt priests. when it is still closer. Putting your ear to them. There are some that actually provoke evil visions. hortus sine herbis. according to Benno.????Then why do you want to know?????Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do. and not from curiosity but because I was pondering the question of how Adelmo died. paranders. as if I were drenched by the icy winter rain.?? I pointed out. even those we entered from a windowed room. What had happened. ??there is only one means. Where is Berengar? What has happened to him? What are you doing?????I am only a monk who. like the one we had just come through. which supported the tympanum. You know well??even if you will not admit it to me??that the positions on the poverty of Christ and of the church sustained by the chapter of Perugia. meditating. Venantius. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called.