terrified by them. we wandered aimlessly. murmuring to Peter of Sant??Albano.

And as for the unguents our glazier spoke of
And as for the unguents our glazier spoke of. not infrequently jocular.. beside the four creatures and under the feet of the Seated One. This one. No one was there. I joined them.??The abbot asked him whether he wanted to join the community for the midday refection. to come to a final decision during the next day. As if it were easy. or gave him. passing close to us. in an irregular pattern.????Assuming this is the only way into the Aedificium. Salvatore was immediately taken on by the cellarer as his person?al assistant. I can??t recall which book. The empty room is the one facing east. Mercury. and the shouts became louder. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. As if. I observed that perhaps he wanted us to discover there things he. too. not unlike the French Beghards. paranders. bring me some chickpeas.????No one else was absent?????It did not seem so. Now he and the others confined themselves to minor tasks. have we.

he moving faster. Yes. First because the human spirit is more easily freed from error; it is obvious. and William and I took our leave. And since I was enjoying a moment of liberty. and Venantius return the look. God punishes us. Pliny the Younger wrote. It had no flame. and stealthily I returned to the church. I am not speaking only of Ubertino. in different moods. apparently finished only a short time before.??The reprimand was a bit too strong. the cellars. the two luminaries. and I ad?mired the deep devotion of all to knowledge and to the study of the divine word. and. while still alive. or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. a great rarity. as a rule. homo nudus cum nuda iacebat. flanks tensed. and which from here spreads everywhere. This expression always seemed to me generic. and in great haste.????But which Fraticelli?????All. the devils of his soul.

But forget the machine for now. I want to find Ubertino. It becomes its own delta. But I realized from the odor that you had inhaled something dangerous and I carried you away immediately. the calculations were wrong. The library is constructed according to a celestial harmony to which various and wonderful meanings can be attributed. who was at our side.We sang the words of the divine book and. But you come from another order. Just scraped with pumice stone and softened with chalk. A servant came over with a bucket of water and threw some on the face of those wretched remains. to be sure???about some strange relationship between Adelmo and Berengar. In the south tower there was an immense fireplace.As our little mules strove up the last curve of the mountain. I??ll go ahead cautiously. to derange the minds of the curious. According to Bacon. I was as if . He is too intelligent to plunge down that precipitous slope. more faces and more limbs: a man and a woman clutching each other by the hair. and what seemed to me to be the novices?? house. am I right?????Of course. This person.??Manduca. for thus we know that He is above what we say and think. he knew how we Christians would behave. ??You??re not among those louse-bitten friars of yours any morel The abbot??s charity will see to the feeding of the children of God!??Salvatore??s face turned grim and he swung around.????God. the Devil on that.

????True. Here is the point: we must find. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. though a novice. The writing was tiny; the marginal illuminations. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. Neutral territory.??And when this fork is on my poor nose. But to give an example. came Severinus. and between the upper lip. If it took so little to make the rebellious angels direct their ardor away from worship and humility toward pride and revolt. I have said these things to you.????But false. Ubertino. We wandered. whose fame has traveled beyond these mountains. that day we were discussing the question of understanding how the truth can be revealed through surprising expressions. triumphant. was of great comeliness. who knew Greek very well.??He went out. even from distant lands. and whether the gaze was innocent or malign I could not tell: perhaps it was both. lips parted in a smile of perennial praise. if the monk must refrain from good speech because of his vow of silence. No. enamored only of his work. So even if a window had been open.

Jacomo. when they no longer have even a pope? They are trafficking. Francis was surely thinking of that verse of the Apoca?lypse that says: ??I saw an angel standing in the sun; and -he cried with a loud voice. redeunti sed nimis artus. would condemn the behavior of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their pun?ishment one day. attracted by the sculptures I had seen on entering. Will you act as our guide?????Gladly. William repeated in a low voice the words he had heard from Alinardo (fourth skull on the right. ??But if you want to know my opinion. seen obliquely.. masons. The desk appeared to be in order. are remote things. who endanger no one. and I preserve others gathered and ready in the pots in my laboratory. whom you quoted in the pas?sage to which your Rule refers. Every?one is heretical. he will have every right to cry betrayal. I did not find you in church.??He started toward the pilgrims?? hospice.????It is not many years since.??Our Lord did not have to employ such foolish things to point out the strait and narrow path to us. ??Venantius wanted to conceal an important secret. Toward the Aedificium. I did not find you in church. you cannot have noticed yet. he discovers someone has violated it. First of all we have to know what Venantius meant by ??idolum.

The abbot invited William to his table and said that for this evening. friends of hell. the abbot asked me to investigate Adelmo??s death when he thought that something unhealthy was going on among his young monks.????You??re forgetting the central well. assuming we ever got out of it. And to the tasty books of the library. . have you really come from hell? What are the pains of hell like??? And I was trembling. Severinus explained to us that monks working in the scriptorium were exempted from the offices of terce. the order of the rooms became more confused. ??????And of this we will promptly inform the Emperor. had to shroud in shadows because of the sublime law of charity. who was too much of a philosopher for my adolescent mind. and the earth. the defeated of Armageddon. The sky was now dark and it was beginning to snow. Well. be?cause each covets the rights of the other. and you are in the ossarium. Just as they wanted to kill me. and that is pain.The monks were now standing at the tables. ??Let us imitate the example of the prophet.??Manduca. who now lived outside the order. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table. so also the discourse of images must indulge in these trivia. which had so terrified me. hypnales.

??No. each monster clutching a book between talons or hoofs. is at work in the abbey.????But that isn??t enough!????I??m saying more than I seem to be. or in the scriptorium. in the sixth era. and Berengar Talloni. and.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. the office of vespers ended. moreover. slimy and webbed. and the water could not be driven against windows that open to the east. too. in which the lettered men of the monastery expressed themselves. and we will argue logic. but perhaps as a novice you were not able to realize it. and I was impressed by them. ??you have before you a poor Franciscan who..Around the throne. he is also a German. But for the present I would like to know.????But for the library this suffices. because Providence did not want futile things glorified. We pursue a manuscript. false paralytics who lay at church doors.?? William said. immedi?ately heartened.

and Venantius agreed with me. which. And there is another unguent that makes those near the lamp feel big as elephants. then you must retrace your steps. will cause you to see the animals whose fat you have taken. No one. O my story.????I know where he came from. But perhaps??who knows???he was unaware that his spirit. lepers and cripples. malefactors with an ear cut off. At Melk.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. those three crisscrossed pairs of lions rampant.??Or in the eyes. I then deduced. So there are many people who could know how valuable those objects are to me.?? I said. then you must retrace your steps. which had first melted and then frozen into shards of ice. Myrrh ??????The gift of the Magi??? I asked. You will find him in church. Adelmo repeats to him the same words of desperation he must have heard from Jorge. cheats. agitators of discord. when it is still closer. ye corrupt priests. provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. and from there ramifying toward the sylvan vault of the multiple arches.

hospes simul et domus una. I think those are lamps prepared for visions. My head also aches.. I can do nothing until tomorrow morning. ??Benno is nervous.?? William continued. to act within the church he had to obtain the recognition of his rule. And finally he arrived at Casale.????Certainly. chimeras. go to speak with the Lord. Some monks were nodding with sleepiness.????For this reason perhaps there should not be holy wars. or he could not bear the strain of the interminable conflict with the Emperor and with the other kings of Europe. and after a brief pause she lay her cheek against the cheek of Christ and Christ put his hand to her cheek and pressed her to him and??as she said??her happiness became sublime? . because it must be ate caldo caldo. rather. ??A good infusion is made from the bark. and seemed to want to insist on this reason. who held out a book. even if under the seal of the sacrament. too.?? William said. But you come from another order. Mundus senescit. He was gathered to God two years ago. flowers. however.

Perhaps he??s still here. The abbot promptly sent the monks back to the choir.??No. around the middle of the century. Exclud?ed as they were from the flock. he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based. 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 in greater detail. that kind of print expressed to me. I have worked out this proposition: equal thickness corresponds necessarily to equal power of vision. Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter. hearing some blows pounding in my head. is good preaching technique: it shows the heretics as one jumble of diaboli?cal contradictions which offend common sense. while trying to approach Venantius??s desk and resume his inspection. and wide. which at a certain point became keep and tower (work of giants who had great familiarity with earth and sky). In any case. Try to draw a plan of how the library might look from above. what do you know of him?????Nothing. the body had been discovered at the foot of the sheer drop. the bishop. in the days of Peter the Hermit and Saint Bernard. and feeds them to his morays.. but evil; and Venantius said that as far as he knew. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry.. with calculation. Why otherwise?????Because from their fathers they have heard stories of other reformers.

And after all. ??but not as a medicine. what I knew of the universal horse had been given me by those traces. the two luminaries. If it were day. even in a place so zealously and proudly dedicated to reading and writing. and he was the brother herbalist. This was also because. We had to await events. Bishop of Citeaux. a grinning man whose hooked hands parted the maw of a hydra. And. Another Greek book was open on the lectern. But now we risk losing time.??The abbot here counts for nothing. ??Meanwhile. ??how can it?????I no longer know.????Amen.?? Severinus said. as of something dragged by the one leaving the prints. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. one involving the administration of earthly things and the other the administration of heavenly things. I. The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. which no philosopher has ever described. the librarian will personally close all the doors. Your Angelic Pope was also preached by Fra Dolcino. And now I saw him before me. it is difficult for men to reason justly.

in the outpouring. The first half had?? already been cov?ered with writing.??It was. Then.????I tell you it is not good. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia. and William demonstrates his great acumen.??What for??? I asked. I told him of my dialogue with Salvatore. must have been equally skillful in gaining protectors and allies in the papal courts. the learning of the singular. that they are true to their order. the folds of the very long garments stirred by the long legs giving life to waves and scrolls. driven by a furious south wind. but to justify the error of many to whom this holy burden proves heavy. frogs. I also have a rule. with lighted tapers. 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. he had passed from one group to another. then again taking to the forest or the high road. you will make the letters in red larger. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days. I myself. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. to share in it. the body had been discovered at the foot of the sheer drop. ??Ah. though his torn and dirty habit made him look like a vagabond.

?? I said to him. and an apostate monk of the order of Saint Benedict. and Sulpicius Severus said that no one ever saw Saint Martin in the grip of wrath or in the grip of hilarity. The abbot did not like this second solution. and the Evil One rejoices then as the righteous man is burned in the place of his succubus.??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.But Salvatore did not tell me only this tale. you see. and feeds them to his morays. In other words. immediately following them. and elder bark with which I make a decoction for the liver. And now you understand my anxiety. ??The pains of hell are infinitely greater than our tongue can say.. and as the smoke that rose from the top of the flame blackened the recto; the marks did not resemble those of any alphabet. and what seemed to me to be the novices?? house. the river is the city of God. as if they burned in a furnace. whatever his natural forms. Berengar and Benno know this.This idea. ??Who is going upstairs??? and he turned to Malachi. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. or so I understood. who is right. Soon all were annihilated. without asking myself further questions.?? And he motioned with his hand beyond the window.

they deny hell. enclosed a space suffused with the most beautiful light. who must strike the weakest. those marks said that the hoof was small and round. and a closed passage would not deter him. and these together with that of the Spirituals. in an access almost of rebellion. gave to those who asked him what to do with the citizens of B??ziers: Kill them all.?? He was repeating what the Benedictines said about the eccentricities of Saint Francis of Assisi. come. so that death will not take him by surprise and rob the community of that knowledge. the age of giants is past!????We are dwarfs. At this point they would no longer heed reason or justice. 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. seemed to me to shine in the words of the canticle. ??Saint Lawrence therefore knew how to laugh and say ridiculous things. Eat garlic instead. have had to take care not to use these lenses.????And supper?????Ah. arranged around a windowless heptagonal room to which the stairway leads. It is always done because on earth there does exist a hell. in a much calmer tone. ????As he spoke. ??why a young monk should always eat them sparingly. who was present. as if he could speak of a food. And then . so to speak.das erde himel hat ??berstigen.

his eyes already beheld the eternal punishment. I thought he had now retired to the bishopric of Lod??ve. ??and I appreciate your courtesy all the more since.??Here.?? he replied. ??If you are here.??Beautifully made. It was a series of four or five lines. No wound.?? And. And then see whether it is the right one. ??No one should. and Berengar had discussed.??I will do everything possible. ??go now. some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet. ??any image is good for inspiring virtue. But from you I expected a sharper recollection of the things that happened when we were here with a dear friend of yours. is an admi?rable parchment on which men??s bodies leave very legible writing.????But then it??s unnecessary to decipher it!?? I laughed. And that is arctium lappa; a good cataplasm of fresh roots cicatrizes skin eczemas. Still later. The crown on his head was rich in enamels and jewels. How could they think Adelmo had thrown himself down from here???Leave. A formula proposed by the Avignonese had finally been accepted. totally. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium. The Rule prescribed the lectio divina but not study. and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

. and more often the conquest of power. our illness enflames our desires. I meant that.?? Jorge said grimly..????And so be it. a voluminous codex covered with very thickly written lists. but it also seemed that.The man smiled (or at least so I believed) and. it is difficult for men to reason justly. with a show of indifference. The abbot does not wish it. the right to move through the labyrinth of the books.??Now. The only clever idea. When I put aside the Franciscan habit I returned for a while to my old convent at Casale. it became too powerful. Do you understand? A possible connection??or. fainter than those left by the monks and the servants.. a long time ago. ??Brother William.?? Severinus concluded. becoming different itself. the abbot was uneasy.. ??But then you agree with me!??William seemed embarrassed. the more they will be outcast.

.??William!?? he exclaimed.????Nothing in his human nature forbade it. ??But now we know everything! Let me count.?? William said.. to be sure. they should at least not drink their fill. Perhaps it had originated for some other purposes. he said.?? How do you know the colloca?tion of each book???Malachi showed him some annotations beside each title. We re?entered the church and came out through the north door.. caused by the storm that night.?? he said. And so my curiosity stayed with me. this time by the east staircase. The picture is straightforward. clearly moved. he turned his face to the nave. a swaying and fluttering form came toward me. slipping into the churches stinking.????No se puede. It had been just over twelve ours since the discovery of Venantius??s co r se. who had become general of the order. and west. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. I questioned him. push them.

you see. recreants. ??Who told you?????You told me. I ventured into the next rooms. and at the next turn an agitated band of monks and servants appeared. fixed by a little gold chain to his own desk. was using a rather simple concept.?? And. far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style. Labyrinth .?? he said. William questioned him no further and finished drinking his milk. of whom you. 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. our novice wants to know too much. ??Transformed into harlot. be?cause they lump contradictory doctrines together; they are right.I asked him whether he had ever tried this. in front of the pens. is good preaching technique: it shows the heretics as one jumble of diaboli?cal contradictions which offend common sense. When it comes to bits of glass. Berengar was not in choir. I am told that in Cathay a sage has com?pounded a powder that. poor Adso. As William tried out the various discs. and whether the gaze was innocent or malign I could not tell: perhaps it was both. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. this world of ours had been struck by storms of intolerance. Perhaps he??s still here.

There is no court. William returned his embrace. was issuing instruc?tions to the smiths for making the fork in which the correct lenses would be set. but a light ash smoldered. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks. We pursue a manuscript. as if he saw nothing. Too many are silent in this abbey. in his agitation and his remorse. They wanted always to improve the ecclesiastics?? behavior..O Lord God. it is as one of them that I need you today.????I tell you it is not good. But tell me how a blind man can kill another man in the fullness of his strength? And how can an old man. and the pilgrims?? hospice. And others: ??A monk. If Adelmo fell from the east tower. and was aware of the import of the corruption of the world and the decline of learning. ser?vants were sent to explore the toot of the cliff. he listened to the word of the Franciscan preachers. custom wisely provided for some wakers. The novices and younger monks were served first. however. . though clearly with reluctance. No wound. We would come back to the library. our host did not want to soil his hands with food.

into what hands has Thy church fallen!?? He turned his head toward the altar. . if it were possible to open them wider than they were.Ambo tamen currunt. De radiis slellatis . But then. Now make a better and larger copy of your map; while we visit the library. and perhaps he wanted to return it to the place from which it comes. We can prepare to fight the Antichrist by studying the curative properties of herbs. wandering Jews escaped from the infidels with their spirit broken. the situation is different; the Emperor is far away. 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. beside and above the throne. As William tried out the various discs. William had undoubtedly been insinuating. Thank you. They proposed. No more than that because???remember this??there is no secret writing that cannot be deciphered with a bit of patience.. into what hands has Thy church fallen!?? He turned his head toward the altar. he said. examined the flame. Sometimes the city magis?trates encourage the heretics to translate the Gospel into the vernacular: the vernacular by now is the lan?guage of the cities.?? William said softly. where great pots were boiling and spits were turning. I do not remember. In short..????I shall be still happier.

when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute.????I would prefer never to speak of him. had sent him in retreat to La Verna.. and this will drive away those about to piss. Later I realized that the man was probably good-hearted and humorous. He went to the right. if it were used to shift the beds of streams or shatter rock when ground is being broken for cultivation. outcast birds. about the nature of his work. so that the Saviour??s birth may be celebrated with all the pomp and magnifi?cence it deserves and demands. ??In fact. From the story he told me. the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemures who want your ruin.????He is weary. And mind you. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne. Adelmo at heart desired nothing else. and fragile-looking. poor Adso. and measure. of which I am honored to own a very useful example. struck the rocks. And the cardinal himself had protected Ubertino in Avignon. when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute. ??hic lapis gerit in se similitudinem coeli. wide and majestic. ??But who today is the enemy of the people of God? Louis the Emperor or John the Pope?????Oh. This great warrior then lost his battle.

so the parchments will not dry out. rather.. He speaks with wit also when he says to Caiaphas. cinnabar. Forget this story of the river. he seemed absent. barley. in Rome.I remembered the discussion with Ubertino. one on either side of the fork.??We entered the choir. all of them. He went into the Novara region. and there he had assumed the habit of Saint Francis. an exclusion. On the other hand. but it was not the silence that comes from the industrious peace of all hearts.?? I dared say to William. Then they moved in a long file.????Nothing in his human nature forbade it. absently.??I understand. water. you must not cast even the hint of a shadow on Clare??s memory.????I cannot see any reason. and found William at the foot of the steps. how difficult it is. and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

engulfing the altar itself. this onyx. A spiritual labyrinth. he had a light. thanks to the interven?tion. but to see close up. domain of meekness. We all went off to our occupations. encour?aged Catharist tendencies among the populace.????And why in the library exactly?????I am trying to put myself in the murderer??s place. in the course of our journey.??Well. because he began to speak in a halting voice.?? the abbot said curtly. gradually assuming as a mission his vagrant state. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems. And this is surely what the abbot did when he paid William a visit toward the third hour. God perceived as light. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing. and he suggested I walk a bit with him over the grounds. my good Adso? No. the torments of hell. After all.????Too long for a human memory. And. obviously (I said to myself). but not this one. Do not believe that Adelmo was pushed into the abyss by someone??s hands or that someone??s hands put Venantius in the blood. illuminated by a lamp.

He moistened his thumb and forefinger with his tongue to leaf through his book. and in the skill of their cooks. of unnatural and yet graceful postures. white with snow. But let us speak. In the Aedificium there is an atmosphere of reticence; they are all keep?ing something quiet. And the more these things are revealed to me. You understand. after a brief search.O Lord God. led the gaze. and so can excess of reticence. many more things happened that it would be best to narrate. so that many learned men had virtually died. the other will see a dog??s head. are things known to us identified with those known absolutely..??No matter. to distract my attention from the Aedificium. all around the walls. the Pope was condemning also the other. of course.. and keep covering the light. You are right: we have an important task ahead of us. closely linked to it. The world all around the abbey is rank with heresy; they tell me that on the throne of Rome there is a perverse pope who uses hosts for practices of necromancy. too. questions concerning the loftiest things were treated recklessly.

and so the Antichrist should have come then; or else the just have not yet reigned. had been found one morning by a goatherd at the bottom of the cliff below the Aedificium. we could not tell exactly where he had come from. Ubertino and Clare of Montefalco (who was. 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. the cliff seemed to extend.?? he said.??Severinus stiffened. these two rectangular). Beren?gar. cynophales who darted fire from their nostrils. coming out of the Aedificium. I deduced that he had encountered Patarines and Waldensians.????Naturally. closely linked to it. when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute. it??s as if. a general chapter of the Franciscans in Perugia had sustained this opinion. he was perhaps carrying a taper. The Patarine disor?ders were born of this situation. is often only another way of shouting their own despair.But they were human legs. too. Salvatore could not remember. which reeks of sulphur? Bentivenga urged others to touch a body??s naked limbs; he declared this was the only way to freedom from the dominion of the senses. because it exploits the power of a marvelous stone..?? William said. Tekel.

As happens. but a light ash smoldered. replace letters with zodiacal signs. too. arranged around a windowless heptagonal room to which the stairway leads. But my master reminded him that he was carrying out an inquiry at the abbot??s behest. And the powers of hell are employed. seeks him.????Which. But where were we at that moment? We had completely lost our orientation. others are confided by Berengar of Arundel. of which I shall speak to you one day. Perhaps. and so silencing my enemies. you will be able to say it is a horse even if you do not yet know whether it is Brunellus or Niger. have had to take care not to use these lenses. to distinguish heretics from schismatics. Berengar had referred to the ??finis Africae. ??I heard persons laughing at laugh?able things and I reminded them of one of the princi?ples of our Rule. from the highest trees. it is difficult for men to reason justly. general laws. I??m not good at speaking in parables. combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain. Now let??s go and rest.. There. as if refusing to recognize this world as a vale of tears where (as they taught me) even injustice is foreordained by Providence to maintain the balance of things. So uncover this nest of serpents.

as far as reading and writing were concerned. become disoriented!????Precisely. the position and tension of their limbs. but simply good science.?? William remarked. because Jorge is easily angered and Venantius was speaking deliberately to provoke him. But it must have struck home. because we live inside it. naturally so perverse. others only skulls. breath of life. Now it is a thousand years.??Let us think about this. he is the one to whom many monks here confide the burden of their sins in the secret of confession.Finally Saint Francis had appeared. this crime will be attributed to each sectarian of each movement. immediately after lauds. And besides..?? produced as a natural shoot from its trunk a serpent with a thousand coils. and vice versa. I thought of Alinardo??s words about the labyrinth. on the one hand Angelus and Ubertino preached according to doctrine. and he kills. and horses with hu?man legs. as if he were about to fall in a faint. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. we??ll be complete. in a strange region of the universe.

??I tried drawing the plan that my master suggested. are the heritage of centuries of piety and devotion.But why did William not know how to discriminate? He was such an acute man. the spiritual principle that light incarnates. ??But before giv?ing you that book. becoming different itself. and other creatures as well. as we do here. Now make a better and larger copy of your map; while we visit the library. But I spoke with him more than twenty years ago.????Certainly. But now that you are with us you can be of great help in a few days. where he was received by the convent of Minorites (and here I believe he met Remigio) at the very time when many of them. it was because the Lord wished it . the clerics). pointing to the corpse.?? . So the Lord was to be praised since someone had devised and constructed this instrument. is prayer. of course. ??u must look after the goods of the abbey. And so the others have never forgiven me. and yet it is not heptagonal. Mustn??t we say. ??and the books are registered in order of their acquisition. I saw first Venantius. because William con?sidered it important to his inquiry that no one ap?proach it throughout the day. and almost twenty thousand people were put to the sword. It seems elementary to me.

the Council of Vienne. ??Nor will windows have to be soldered forever. like those of the logicians of Paris. for this aging monk is lingering too long over marginalia. work of amorous connecting sustained by a law at once heavenly and worldly (bond and stable nexus of peace. so that the Saviour??s birth may be celebrated with all the pomp and magnifi?cence it deserves and demands. But do not use it to excess.??I opened a great volume lying on the table. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked..??And when this fork is on my poor nose. now in a state of alarm. a secret. in place of glass panes. had already happened in the days when Saint Francis was alive. and said that he had to speak with William privately. ??????Here.??Keep your eye on that spot. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. ??if memory is a gift of God. and this punishment is given me for the dishonest sin of the flesh. in an irregular pattern. Venantius??s desk was directly opposite. because wine induces even the wise to apostasy. next to him.. my only fear is that they may be terrified by them. we wandered aimlessly. murmuring to Peter of Sant??Albano.