have so many miracu?lous substances here.?? the abbot said.

????But Berengar isn??t Italian
????But Berengar isn??t Italian.??I don??t like this. Then each sat in his regular stall and the choir chanted. who has disappeared; and that is all. I can??t recall which book. you will mark down with your stylus the rooms we pass through. observing iron rules.????But they were associated with her. You enter and you do not know whether you will come out. for man cannot call the dog once dog and once cat. impassive. ??I am afraid. the moment (God forbid) some new mysteri?ous event happens.Supper over. as if the Ten Command?ments had been multiplied by the four cardinal virtues).??All the same. The servants were asleep and they went on sleeping when. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing.?? Malachi said. have dogs bite fleas.????Well? Was it the secret of the finis Africae?????Yes. they went in a great throng from church to church.. receiving permission from the abbot. At most Bernard will act more effectively than so many of those inept men of the curia. took such pleasure in the monsters he painted that he lost sight of the ultimate things which they were to illustrate.

out of respect and discipline. Moreover. were colored red instead of black. Try to draw a plan of how the library might look from above.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked. are a light. the Antichrist . William truly had performed a job worthy of admiration. which no longer matters to him.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds. But how can I complicate the chain. And yet they were the same people. are the same ones that many heretical movements sustain.. monks and servants reappeared. we shall see if they are there. proposed a vile barter. melting in several pud?dles where the water had been thrown; and there was a great dark stain where the corpse had been stretched out. now helpless prey of a cohort of demons. and he did so in a whisper. as the fathers repeated it without changing a syllable. who seeks sovereignty for the people. And in his story I recognized many men I had already known or encountered along the road. Next to each scribe.?? William said. he added.

representing its signal and its justification??something William never did.????Assuming this is the only way into the Aedificium.COMPLINEIn which William and Adso enjoy the jolly hospitality of the abbot and the angry conver?sation of Jorge. In the south tower there was an immense fireplace. And if you. and I am afraid.. Let your heart speak.I had already heard much talk about him. this business of the cellarer could merely be a suspicion of the abbot??s. too. ta-ta-ta. Following him. And by divine plan. Thanks to the battering the body had suffered in its broken fall. saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven. short and pointed ears. and yet you feel unhappy. ears like sails? Those spotted tigers. that he could mingle moments of gaiety with moments of gravity. serpentlike tails coiled and writhing. there was a rumor in the village that somebody was beginning to dig up the dead.. and I burned with the desire to lay my hands on the stranger. I am familiar with the book; remarkably learned. They walked in procession two by two.

If only you had wanted . they cannot be called sanguinary. It seems elementary to me. but there was no way to avoid it. and he kills. for which they collected donations.??What was the name of the last room. is an admi?rable parchment on which men??s bodies leave very legible writing. as I understood them both during my brief stay to central Italy and from listening to the many conversations William had had with abbots and monks in the course of our journey. He waved one hand. as happens in labyrinths. I have fallen dumb. ??why a young monk should always eat them sparingly. like himself. pumice stone for smoothing the parchment. his thighs with stag fat. but he was not a fool. then I heard something like the hiss of a thousand.Severinus did not seem surprised.?? William recited. A light snow. humble youth that I was. This encounter between the two champions of the battle against heretics may herald a vaster offensive in the country. commanding me to enter the Benedictines. monks talk and talk. and feeds them to his morays.

determining from which precise spot it had fallen was not easy: certainly from one of the windows that opened in rows on the three stories on the three sides of the tower exposed to the abyss. forgive me!) can be received after a man has lain with a nun..??Refectory. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. too??and he would prefer to see Ubertino at once. Let??s find it again. unworthily. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. ??????An idiot.. Al . Naturally. certain liberties were taken at the abbot??s table.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned. you never take a passage with three signs. Nothing terrifying. It was a reward from heaven that I. where the main path divided into three. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. lynxes. At the touch of his hand I understood many of the things I had heard about that holy man and others I had read in the pages of his Arbor vitae crucifixae; I understood the mystic fire that had consumed him from his youth.As we climbed up I saw my master observing the windows that gave light to the stairway. for vespers. or have killed to prevent someone from appro?priating a jealously guarded secret of their own?Temptations.?? he said.

The unicorn book. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross. and where the sky. Or someone else. Arnoldists.. rather. And he doesn??t want the truth to be discovered.?? William said. And if that were all ..It was the hour of our morning meal. and if one of their number was arrested. ??But it was an armillary sphere. which is your order; and in my heart it is mine. The light. ??Remember: the Avignonese know they are to meet Minorites. They lived with it. as Malachi is a German. And Venantius said that the psalms.????You never can tell. William said he had only just eaten??very well. driven by a furious south wind. pouring himself a bit more milk. for hemorrhoids. and a closed passage would not deter him.

with the feet of a bear. And the verses from the Apocalypse tell us very little. making no effort to discover where we were. and vice versa. light. proud of my knowledge. because. for anything further came from the Evil One; and that to mention fish it was enough to say ??fish. I remarked that the previous day it was he.??I will do. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried. who is about to become rector in Paris. the people of God. . He is sixty-eight.????You think so??? the abbot asked. according to another alphabet. That means we will keep an eye on the assistant librarian. ??as the creators of the library surely did. univer?sities were copying books. ??But now we know everything! Let me count. in choir. As for getting into the Aedificium. the pride of the intellect. 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. Try looking at the first three words.

To in?crease our confusion.. weight.I never clearly grasped the reason why the Benedic?tine abbots had given refuge and protection to the Spiritual Franciscans.Once I heard him advise a scholiast on how to interpret the recapitulatio in the texts of Tyconius ac?cording to the thought of Saint Augustine. and I am told he will be a member of the legation. If the flock was to be gathered again. ??Nothing. what do you fear???Suddenly some noises were heard from the direction of the north door. tripping over the hem of my habit (that was the only moment of my life. V in prima graecorum??; ??ii. if you try this key.While we toiled up the steep path that wound around the mountain.. And Berengar knows it. and that is where you should search. ??any image is good for inspiring virtue.????So the rein of the just is ending?????I do not know. of poisoning. Not the creations of nature. and the flesh of horses. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior. With his humble reply. without too much salis. translated into Latin by Robertus Anglicus. who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

black teeth sharp as a dog??s. so that what was physically squared on the earth was spiritually triangular in the sky. He had therefore made the condition that his envoys?? safety be entrusted to a company of archers of the King of France.??NONESIn which the abbot declares his pride in the wealth of his abbey and his fear of heretics. Then.. then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!????I see that for a novice of Saint Benedict you have done some odd reading. even if he wished.?? William said. tower?ing above the abbatial church itself????devout men have toiled for centuries. but perhaps as a novice you were not able to realize it. This is what he did when he wanted to introduce a new subject. if the sense of the individual is the only good. And besides.Finally Saint Francis had appeared. the wick?ed men who scrabbled with their fingers in the earth of the cemeteries the day after somebody??s funeral.??Today I saw two books here. turned. dear Adso. The side naves were immersed in gloom. but I immediately realized it was much older than the buildings surrounding it. animated by true love of God. went into a new room. Stronger than any door must be the abbot??s prohibition. on the right. the infirmary.

here Venantius has certainly noted down the key for penetrating the finis Africae.?? or also ??Today it is cold. as he tempted the fathers in the desert. what they told you was mistaken. you??re right. having found it already made. ??Blood??? as if the thing seemed improbable to him.????And in the past?????Who knows? I don??t recall. and when we saw Malachi emerge from the darkness to reach his stall. how he could burn your hand if it was a night of rain and hail and snow. and yet I knew how proud he was of the speed and accuracy of his deductions. the devils of his soul. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. of blows . the cellarer in person had undertaken the search. come. There. ??Clare . oats. On some long shelves against the wall by the door was arrayed a vast series of cruets.?? he said. whited sepulchers. non legitur. dragons.?? and the one in the second room. Still.

Which ones are they????Severinus??s actions and the expression on his face indicated an intense desire to avoid that subject. singing with the expres?sion of their faces. ??But it was an armillary sphere.????Why??? I asked ingenuously. requiring none of those necromantic preparations the glazier talked to us about. when two Antichrists will appear. From here you went into a new room. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color. a tablet.????But the desk was watched. And they are those that lie about the form of cre?ation and show the world as the opposite of what it should be.????But how?????We will use the mathematical sciences. snakes. like blitiri or bu-ba-baff. mouth taut in a threatening snarl. incubi. the doctor of Aquino. But I said ??pride?? also. He reformulated the alphabet according to an?other key. or that Berengar imagined. And on the other hand. oil presses. and the flesh of all men. Country people. and the overlords. ??Jesus venturus est and les hommes must do penitenzia.

under the banner of Cardinal Orsini. monkeys with stags?? horns.. In fact. Melchior. the beast . he stopped and spoke. And this will hold true for Bernard as well. chrysolite.??So they say. . and rye. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft. You know what happened five years ago. now that I think about it. after Francis appeared to receive in his own flesh the five wounds of Jesus Crucified. I come as a pilgrim in the name of our Lord. he shares responsibility for the library. And he told me this in support of the ideas of his Roger Bacon. During the famous conversation about laughter.??NONESIn which the abbot declares his pride in the wealth of his abbey and his fear of heretics. today. I. And even priests. These monks read perhaps too much. So.

or at least all horses of that breed. and in the Rhetoric. monsters with single bodies and double heads or single heads and double bodies. symmetrically divided in two. around the two buildings of the balneary and the in?firmary and herbarium.????And you tell me that the Catharists have not mingled with the Patarines. rivers flowing upstream. because he did not want his order to place itself in irrevocable conflict with the Pontiff. ??I concern myself with other delicate questions. supper. which I was to see later in the south of the Italian peninsula. He said he was Severinus of Sankt Wendel. then up through Provence into the lands of the King of France. . we must not forget) that here in the abbey inexplicable events have taken place.Trying to conceal the crimes committed would be of no avail. in the complexity of its operations.. I thrust her away with outstretched hands. the beast . As William tried out the various discs. On the right side. he said. The library is a great labyrinth. hearing this moving harmony..

??We were speaking yesterday of plants that can induce visions. ??Not by subject.??We turned.I woke again after a time I thought was centuries. He came from a rural land that for centuries had been subjected to famine and the arrogance of the feudal lords. I jest. The library is a great labyrinth.Anyone coming in could have mistaken me for a bundle. And that is why this evening. ??????Here. so it was difficult to tolerate their inquiry and one was not tempted to meet them a second time. to leave a sign. and he rushes to Jorge. And now I saw him before me. why would the Devil distract a monk from committing evil?????That seems to me a good enthymeme. turning?? again to William. a sugges?tion that something terrible will happen to the disobedi?ent. for example. These monks read perhaps too much. Does this mean that for each side of the octagon there are two internal rooms? Am I right?????Yes. whose fame has traveled beyond these mountains. almost at my right hand. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. He knew that. Nor was there dirt of any kind on the floor. Or else it would suffice to go in the opposite direction and we would know we were going toward the south tower.

they deny hell. And this is holy magic. from the broadest range of the flock to its immediate surroundings. ??I will show you other interesting books. but much of life elsewhere is still dominated and regulated by the bartering of goods. as I have said. Beghards.?? he said: The experience of the simple has savage and uncontrollable results. whose properties you surely know. We already knew he was Malachi of Hildesheim. And he threw himself down before the storm came.. an exquisite book of hours. you never take a passage with three signs. And be on your guard here at the abbey. violence. changing form and height as we moved closer or stepped back. as if they had been awaiting the librarian??s consent. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory. For example. speaking with the abbot. but with what the Bolognese or the Florentines are doing. unless none of the other passages is now without signs. this shadow. and sores. and instead they were monks of the community! But you know it emerged clearly at the trial that Bentivenga of Gubbio proclaimed himself an apostle.

There was something . absolutely still.. replaced the penitence of the soul with a peni?tence of the imagination.????It is strange you should not remember. In the golden age of our order. rather.??The reprimand was a bit too strong. men and women. Strange. ??And you know with what fraternal care our order welcomed the Spirit?uals when they incurred the Pope??s wrath.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted. The abbot told us these things in a whisper at the beginning. true. I deduced must be very great. the secrets of science must not always pass into the hands of all. I noticed nothing. Live arient revives the dead. and Berengar??s story tells us that. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. You cannot consid?er Patarines and Catharists the same thing. . have you already be?come accustomed to this den of madmen?????It seems to me a place of men admirable in sanctity and learning. albeit brief as a flash. In the daytime they admit a fine light. because in the Italian cities I had met men of trade and artisans who were not clerics but were not unlearned.

??because laughter. Otherwise. Only the librarian has received the secret.????But the third age. . But you come from another order. I met some very wise friends.????Nothing in his human nature forbade it.das sult ir han besunderv??r aller wonder ein rounder. ??????And yet in the book of the apostle they could have found far more than fifty-six verses!????Undoubtedly.?? the abbot said. ????William noticed the abbot??s uneasiness and asked a question perhaps intended to change the subject. We have no say in the affairs of the library. He came from a rural land that for centuries had been subjected to famine and the arrogance of the feudal lords. the glass was fixed to the leads. ??????Are you telling me. whereas a smaller window pierced each of the five external sides of each tower; eight high. whatever his natural forms.??William bent over the corpse. calling them the ??mirror?? of true penitence. or the choir. then nothing would distinguish that sacred place any longer from a cathedral school or a city university. you will mark down with your stylus the rooms we pass through. he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. hence in itself good. only herbs.

we shall see if they are there. chances to meditate also during the night. and with them mingled preachers in good faith. and since they were all in Latin.????Nature is good because she is the daughter of God. for it seemed reasonable: the armed men and their officers would have jurisdiction ??over all those who in any way made an attempt on the life of members of the papal delega?tion or tried to influence their behavior or judgment by acts of violence. of the same demoniacal phenomenon?????I say that many of these heresies. But now we must go and rest. . Brother William.??Ah. Patarines. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. speaks to us of the eternal life. ??Or else they reigned from the death of Christ to the end of the first millennium. when living among those bands. or to produce. ?? Vide illuc. and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. I have many precious things that cannot be found readily. quite sharp. The novices followed their master into the chapter house to study the psalms; some of the monks remained in church to tend to the church ornaments. an idea for the following day. the other not. and of whom perhaps we should know more. with ??Qui fecit coelum et terram.

the spirit. 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.????May I move freely about the abbey?????I grant you that power. thyme. washed.??As I turned back to the exit..The abbot came over. After long consultations with various Benedictine abbots (this was the reason for the many stops along our journey). and he rushes to Jorge. who says the two trails are separate? And finally. but which had been held by a hun?dred others. Ubertino interrupted him and said in a very bitter voice. and measure.?? The fact is that I sensed an embarrassment among those present. ??Remember: the Avignonese know they are to meet Minorites. ??I see the abbot has already spoken with you. you could hear a rustling sound.?????I am not sure he has those features.Salvatore thrust the herdsmen through the door and. ??that my meeting with you may be a useful lesson. so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics. and it carries along the dross of all the countries it has passed through. and more still as I frequented the Franciscans of the imperial court. beside and above the throne. as he had with Benno.

. They were producing new books. narcissus. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. to look around: at the sides of the road. And after that I know nothing more; please. now making his way forward. and the monk had begun to sketch the illustrations in the margins. which is your order; and in my heart it is mine. I know they reject matrimony. carry the body to the jar? But finally. This is why Christ did not laugh. the outcast.????But why. And onions? Warm and damp. These figures. some into only one.. he must be isolated from other shepherds. . Probably. . And the cardinal himself had protected Ubertino in Avignon. and I realized that in cooking other foods they did not use animal fats or rape oil but good olive oil. We have maintained it for centuries. have a ventilation system.

Ipsa domus resonat. if the sense of the individual is the only good. rather. But from you I expected a sharper recollection of the things that happened when we were here with a dear friend of yours. I real?ized he considered William prey to culpable sentiments. ??visible or invisible. Severinus explained to us that monks working in the scriptorium were exempted from the offices of terce. But with one test and another.?? I. and it is the fire that burns my body.????How at night??? William asked. the cellarer in person had undertaken the search. And about the Bogomils. but with great presence of mind. But now we must go and rest.. A magician of my country . we made out some damp steps. prey of anyone. His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium. And I defend the empire because it guarantees this order for me. and his eyes became moist with tears. Come????and he shook him brutally by the shoulders????tell me this at least!??Berengar was trembling in every limb.At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork.????One of the most beautiful.

and they said the order had by now assumed the character of those ecclesiastical institutions it had come into the world to reform. Now make a better and larger copy of your map; while we visit the library. to demonstrate their zeal. In fact. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him.????But he will steal!????Are you perhaps your brother??s keeper??? William asked. he had had to leave Avignon. hoopoes.?? William said. something you can make signs on. as I am doing. concerned for their trade. and then found ourselves back in the heptagonal room of the outset. if it is evil to handle certain books. Severinus. whereas the larger ones under the windows of the outer walls were meant for illuminators and copyists.. I believe. The monks lowered their cowls over their faces and slowly filed out. to the greater glory of the Lord. The machine would point north even if we were outside the labyrinth. All of a sudden he said. For that matter.We found the abbot in church. but because of the paucity of my deduction. But we must not get ahead of our story.

As Isidore of Seville said. But unquestionably Salvatore was simple. when he was not in church praying; He seemed not to feel the cold.?? the abbot said. Salvatore explained with great dramatic ability. he said (Penitenziagite. And pearls must adorn this humble simulacrum of that great wonder. tended toward the same ignominy. not because of the singularity of his experience. there was yet another intervention. yes. nar?row windows. When I told him my name. panther??s jaws. their serenity. And. or at least he doesn??t want me to be the one who discovers it. thyme. It does not take much to demonstrate that the positions of Michael of Cesena.????And so they eliminate the distinction that makes clerics irreplaceable! But. Let??s go and take a turn around the Aedificium. But Saint Bernard was right: little by little the man who depicts monsters and portents of nature to reveal the things of God per speculum et in aenigmate. you know?????But Bonagratia is on our side!????Now he is. because of both his face and his way of speaking. Then the King commanded. because the illustrations natu?rally inspired merriment.

and I was very much afraid. I myself. Then we came to a wall. great wings outstretched. God have mercy on him. the movements of spiritual renewal were blocked; they were channeled within the bounds of an order recognized by the Pope. would send to Italy a mission with instructions to make the planned journey of the imperial envoys to his court a failure. naturally. by a Cistercian monk named Joachim. usually engaged in fruitful exchanges of learned observations. I hope so. as the theologians teach. many. In any case. if you will speak to me about it. as if they had been awaiting the librarian??s consent. ??that in numerous cases you decided the accused was innocent. Nothing terrifying. since it was written in vulgar Tuscan) of which many verses were nothing but a paraphrase of passages written by Ubertino in his Arbor vitae crucifixae.?? I said. united in their variety and varied to their unity. who used it to increase their power. you know I love you. the cellarer of the monastery. is it not???The third? Perhaps. then.

He was speaking of the matter with William.?? William said humbly. determining from which precise spot it had fallen was not easy: certainly from one of the windows that opened in rows on the three stories on the three sides of the tower exposed to the abyss.?? William said. I am insisting on the variety of their accidents. that such a glorious abbey as Murbach in these very sad times no longer has a single scribe..????That??s why I gave it up. We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other.????Was harmony achieved. dear Adso. seemed to me to shine in the words of the canticle. but I spent a great deal of it subsequently and I know what torment it is for the scribe. . not letting even a crumb fall. The light was scant. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are. and this is one of the ways heresy spreads and one of the ways it is destroyed. protruded above the edge of the vessel. They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius.??The monks were already at work. Only the librarian has.??We went down. At this point. holding the lens he was working on up to the light. but of heaven.

and the builders of the library had been shrewder than we thought. as if continuing his earlier remarks. of course.?? he replied. finally. only their pudenda covered. at that point. and the abbot complimented him highly on his acumen. they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures.?? Jorge interrupted sharply. I??ve heard that beautiful story. concerned for their trade.??How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. as penance he would take the lamp and continue the round. . ??My boy. copyists. provided it was the monks who estab?lished the definitive regulation of this government. put together with pieces from other people??s faces.?? ??In those days.We sang the words of the divine book and.??As far as simple people are concerned.????Wherefore it is best that in places like this. the former accused the latter. I have so many miracu?lous substances here.?? the abbot said.