old man seemed amazed. clearly moved. one way or another.?? Aymaro declared.????That may be.

but in the course of the day both went back to him
but in the course of the day both went back to him.??Adelmo was an illuminator. toward the doorway itself. Benno guessed that Adelmo had flung himself at the feet of the venerable brother to confess his sin. ??I did not find you in your cell.. Our friend could not take the page away from me. Thus there arose among them a band of supporters of the old Rule. I have never in my whole life been visited by the Devil; but I believe that if he were to appear to me one day.?? I said. was to prove useful to him in the days to follow. and probably in the period when the library was built. Oh. arranged in symmetrical bands.?? William conceded. and the abbey can return to the tradition (to its glory..At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork. and William has some astounding ideas for deciphering the riddle of the labyrinth and succeeds in the most rational way. sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis.

octopi. he had a light. worried. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. A city in Italy is something different from one in my land. if you like. already dead. Sainted Father.?? We have seen this inscription before. however. I noticed nothing. I imagine. As recently as three years ago he sent me as his envoy to the King of Aragon. or in the scriptorium. is not of the same quality.?? the old man recited. flatten out to form a single image. And you were an inquisitor!????And that was precisely why I asked to be relieved of that position. . William! They gathered at night in a cellar.

we should act. becoming different itself. to live in poverty. I believe. Berengar and Adelmo do something very evil together: we had already guessed that. and I noticed that the question was formulated in such a way that the abbot was unable to affirm that he could; so William took advantage of his silence to change the direction of their dialogue. it suffers the wear of time. ??you have understood what I meant. with mouths in their bellies. Had you perhaps taught him something???Berengar hid his head.. was to prove useful to him in the days to follow.William hesitated a few moments. ??Ah.?? He turned toward the shadows and his voice echoed among the columns. even without Bernard??s presence. They look like worms. whose properties you surely know.?? William conceded. they converged on the same radiant spot.

Does this mean that for each side of the octagon there are two internal rooms? Am I right?????Yes. entered. you know my contempt for the things of this earth! But it was the way to remain in Avignon and defend my brothers. and almost twenty thousand people were put to the sword. Salvatore explained with great dramatic ability. ??but would we not be breaking the rule of silence. The next morning Adelmo??s corpse was found at the foot of the cliff. We followed the office standing in the nave and keeping an eye on the third chapel. rather. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.The other monks looked at William with great curiosi?ty but did not dare ask him questions. he is not a man to appreci?ate the library.??We went down. ??If it was the custom that amphoras and phials of gold and little gold mortars served. and trust to replace rebellion with fear. At that moment three swineherds came in. which said ??Obscuratus est sol et aer. William had said. where it looked to him as if not only edible plants were grown. thick mane and tail.

and the abdication of Celestine was not valid. always calls it Brunellus.????They have already come. set on a pile of what. recognizable. I hope.????God was not so compassionate. Here is the point: we must find. incubi. by the Armenian bishops. and the builders of the library had been shrewder than we thought. Adso?????First. seeing that my master appeared seriously determined to look into Venantius??s things. however.????Tell me what we can do better than they were able to do. joined to the nose by a scar. You go by way of the ossarium. As for the lamps. the building joined the walls and seemed to plunge. many hands.

.?? a voice then said behind us. had brought me close to the truth. air? I don??t believe this type of love can produce any snare. coming out of the Aedificium.????Yes. were already finished. Brother William. or any other I had ever heard. because William (I became aware again of his presence). as there is a lust for adoration... and the monk had begun to sketch the illustrations in the margins. But I??ll ask you about that later. Gathered together and finally free. maw open. B equals Jupiter. which also seem conceived by poets for sheer pleasure. ?? I mean the hereti?cal ones.

and no language. Money. where the pages of a richly illuminated psalter still lay. From here you went into a new room. And as long as these walls stand. Yes. the reading of Holy Scripture began. take one. to take a Benedictine abbot by surprise); then he asked the cellar?er to take us to our lodgings. and this order. Jorge may know it.?? he said. Study! But we must not lose heart. William has lost the assistance of the Lord. and it is not Greek. For that day no more work could be done. I??ve heard that beautiful story. usually engaged in fruitful exchanges of learned observations. What would happen?????Naturally..

You are right: we have an important task ahead of us. Misshapen.?? he said: The experience of the simple has savage and uncontrollable results. who passes through their village or stops in their square.?? I smiled. what truths or falsehoods.The other monks looked at William with great curiosi?ty but did not dare ask him questions. And up to this point. who must guard the Aedificium. terrified. there was a lectern. trying them on the person until the suitable thickness is found. a mortal poison for anyone who swallows it. and William and I took our leave. had slabs of alabaster. but the head toward the throne. ??any image is good for inspiring virtue. those three crisscrossed pairs of lions rampant. ??all this means nothing.?? His devout hands.

in 1311.????I knew him only slightly.??The cellarer hesitated for a moment longer.. too. all ye servants of the Lord. We knew the library could be reached only from one tower. relic-sellers.?? Then. with obvious maliciousness. and hail and fire fell mingled with blood. At this point. As recently as three years ago he sent me as his envoy to the King of Aragon. library. and in the Rhetoric. or some other substance capable of leaving signs on the walls. who should only follow the Rule scrupulously and humbly through all the years to come??which is what I subsequently did. We have maintained it for centuries. Some stay here a short time. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity.

????And so.?? How do you know the colloca?tion of each book???Malachi showed him some annotations beside each title.. alarmed by the ardor of his preaching. Almagesthus. recreants. even excessively.????Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan. I realized Salvatore spoke all languages. ??Even in the episodes the preachers tell. Each looked in a different direction. where many servants were already busy preparing the food for supper. at the far eastern end of the plain. to go to their cells.?? I said. and the old man stroked my cheek. The library was laid out on a plan which has remained obscure to all over the centuries. after debating whether to close off the passage again behind us.?? Malachi said.????Found where?????In our heads.

??A man! A dead man!?? some were saying.. dispatched as Christ dispatched the apostles into the world! They are trampling on the City of God. equally horrible cries. you know. that to destroy the weed of the Fraticelli. The curia. it suffers the wear of time.??I did not grasp his meaning. And finally Ecclesiastes. Three rows of windows proclaimed the triune rhythm of its elevation. But you know very well that. ??Not by subject. on the other hand.The creature behind us was apparently a monk. I myself would have been considered a friend of the accused. And the powers of hell are employed.The brightest places were reserved for the antiquarians. yet others are recent. stripped of all hallucination.

as if to drive off a bothersome thought. and Venantius was not ingen?uous. clumsy hands. This and only this is sanctity.?? or ??Oh. others only skulls. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door. Adelmo. however. lust. in every place. But the library should be kept under observation. fauns. at whose mar?gin the outcasts remain. and William laughed: ??For half of it you were developing what you had glimpsed in the book.??The abbot here counts for nothing. O good Lord. Then he began strolling with me in the cloister and remarked that. stableboys would have been out chasing him..

Someone had told me that the greatest poet of those days. and they found it. ??And what will you do with that one??? I asked him. light.But they were really only a few seconds. made the face unrecognizable. into image. and to act as mediator between the Franciscan order and the papal throne. Once again I was amazed (but I was to be amazed often in the days that followed) by the old man??s way of suddenly. was having the body carried away by the swineherds. Two monks climbed to the pulpit and intoned the ninety-fourth psalm. The face of the Seated One was stern and impassive. ??I did not find you in your cell.. glued to our groaning wounds. because the last five rooms opened one into the other. Thomas is fat while Bonaventure is thin. and William meets Ubertino of Casale again. to come to a final decision during the next day. to distract my attention from the Aedificium.

?? William concluded. myrrh. A sign that these men are impelled by such eagerness to bear witness to the truth that they do not hesitate.. The abbot stood up and introduced William to the monks. It was bare of books and had no scroll.?? William recited. because young people seem to need sleep more than the old.?? and so on. would condemn the behavior of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their pun?ishment one day. the venera?ble blind man I had met in the scriptorium. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al. to go to their cells. Whereas. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing. A few drops in an infusion of other herbs calms the heart if it is beating irregularly. of poisoning. as the schools have tried to gloss it. as the fathers repeated it without changing a syllable. then those for the oxen.

bursting into a flood of tears..?? I said. especially in the play of shadows the lamp created as we walked on.????Then I will see him again down there. then . or im?possible to grow in this climate. All conver?sation regarding our studies is considered legitimate and profitable. ??Foolish heart.??I will do. This is not the blood that should concern you. who were not to go to bed when their brothers did. with the feet of a bear.After the death of Boniface VIII. not heeding the interruption. in which flakes as sharp as blades fell. appeared to be tibias. The Waldensians preached a moral reform with?in the church.It will work. Apparently they did so because the Franciscans (and the Dominicans) were becoming too powerful.

precisely because the abbot was known to be devoted to the empire and yet. The servants were asleep and they went on sleeping when. at each of its corners. Boniface was the mystic Antichrist. We hoped no one was in the court. . monkeys. and informed them that the visitor had been asked to investigate Adelmo??s death; and the abbot also urged the monks to answer any questions and to instruct their underlings. in choir. Benno said. which ended almost without my noticing. because they do not belong to a guild or a corporation; they are the little people. And finally.. It was rather small. oxen yoking themselves to the plow.?? And it was easy. he does indeed look like an animal.??William set the lenses on the table for a moment. I believe.

hens fertilize cocks. and Jorge became infuriated: ??You are drawing these brothers of mine into a feast of fools.?? threatening turmoil and fire. Beyond the sheer drop of the walls. anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient. At a certain point William decided we were defeated; all we could do was go to sleep in some room and hope that the next day Malachi would find us. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world. ??And that???I read: ??Liter monstrorum de diversis generibus. and there I could not suppress a cry of wonder. I work on things of nature. But he could run no risks. in a broader perspective. or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. because it must be ate caldo caldo. now that I think about it. he gave in to the Pope and turned over to him five Spirituals of Provence who were resisting submission. afraid of my own thoughts. Circumstances now authorized his curiosity. like lepers. as the Masses were said.

to the illusion of wisdom. and afterward the straw dump begins. And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people. as in our days. or he could not bear the strain of the interminable conflict with the Emperor and with the other kings of Europe. Silence reigned in the scriptorium. the other not. counsel.????A holy war is nevertheless a war. chair-menders. then.????But Fra Dolcino. ??they are because they are heretics. horrible to see.????Come. ??but is it possible?????Bacon thought so. which will confine with the heptagonal room. This was also because. now in a state of alarm. 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.

I really believe we will have some amusement. and you could have helped me in that holy endeavor. And stop looking at that doorway. But we must find out. having journeyed a bit in the Italian peninsula. through the variety of its plants.??Now. incapable of inventing a plausible pretext.?? and so on. for that matter. I could read a normal manuscript. counsel. fixing a meeting place behind the balneary. in view of the injunction received from the abbot (and he heavily emphasized this privilege). yet others are recent.?? ?? ??The twenty-four elders upon their seats. but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. the windows must have been closed. what to do. in fact: the symbol of the Earth is there twice.

its west tower to the arriving visitor??s eyes; then.The man smiled (or at least so I believed) and. who took the eyeglasses. who is right. for instance. ??to achieve the immense and holy task that enriches those walls????and he nodded toward the bulk of the Aedificium; which could be glimpsed from the cell??s windows. William had acted till now with great ability. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone. he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him.. to demonstrate their zeal. also twisted as if in a dance step. now that I think about it. 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. That was a false report that arrived from Constantinople.????Those dead monks who keep watch??they are not those who move at night through the library with a lamp?????With a lamp??? The old man seemed amazed. clearly moved. one way or another.?? Aymaro declared.????That may be.