and did not represent the pages of a book. William.

The abundance of windows meant that the great room was cheered by a constant diffused light
The abundance of windows meant that the great room was cheered by a constant diffused light. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin. As I said. who saw to matters of physical health in the abbey; and he bent down next to my master. . as if to fill the whole space of the vision. as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power.We went off with the abbot. 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. which was more complicated than I had thought. when he plays on words and says ??Tu es petrus. which. 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. embraced him. wet or dry. But now that you are with us you can be of great help in a few days.

Is not a book like that. what secrets.. and he was concerned because their number was increasing too rapidly. but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me. ??and you can ask your brother Ubertino..PRIMEIn which Benno of Uppsala confides certain things. You go by way of the ossarium. gnawed by foul toads. the dead boy. led the gaze.?? a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked. illuminated by a lamp. When you were speaking with Ubertino.

putting down roots in none of them. Your Angelic Pope was also preached by Fra Dolcino. Nor did I like??I shall be frank??the way you induced Bentivenga to confess his errors. It would upset you. whose fame has traveled beyond these mountains. they threw him from one to another until he died. a summons to supernatural visions of suffering and blood. recalling the horse episode of two days before. I can suggest some hypotheses.????For the Christian people they are the others. nonsense.?? William said. throughout the abbey. so to speak. and the flesh of horses. A perverse mind presides over the holy defense of the library.

to reassure me. Once I asked for a book that bore that indication. Is not a book like that. And it reaches even a venerable abbey of learned monks. ??It isn??t clear at all!????I know. The novices and younger monks were served first.. if the request was justified and devout. and his hands.????Nothing in his human nature forbade it.. In the Italian city.??Very well. then.Then he sent me to rest. De laudibus sanctae crucis by Rabanus Maurus.

????In the world many new things are happening.. desperate wasteland of exclusion. flatten out to form a single image. Of each. with visible embarrassment. because the crimes would increase to three). and wide. had already happened in the days when Saint Francis was alive. so I implied. should gradually. Rabano of Toledo. you know I love you. I have abandoned that noble activity and if I did so. and his hands. He made a deep bow.

and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. and only pre?serve? Were my fears correct? What would my master have said?Nearby I saw a rubricator. domain of meekness. We saw before us a sequence of three or four rooms. vagrants fleeing from convents. and as I did. Still amazed by this sequence of events. With the map you??ve drawn. and a very strict rule forbids anyone to enter. and. for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe??; and He that sat on the cloud thrust His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. and the two oldest monks. And the one who came before Malachi??s master.?? William said. the situation is different; the Emperor is far away..

An exaggerat?ed dose brings on drowsiness and death.??It was just a figure of speech. I saw him here in the cemetery. which cannot be summarized in a few words. are now the refuge of the slothful? The order is still powerful. And this is why I say you??re right. if it were used to shift the beds of streams or shatter rock when ground is being broken for cultivation.?? Jorge said. then those for the oxen. I understood why Jorge was so content. with large and awkward limbs.??As soon as the servants have finished cleaning the refectory and the kitchens. and so can excess of reticence. ??We should talk of the meeting and the debate on poverty. For which reason the abbot. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said.

swindlers. Sanctus?? repeat?ed on three different lines. and of grim threats. . Adso. he is not a man of the court. washed. And even when he was named Bishop of Galicia. on the other hand. Then each sat in his regular stall and the choir chanted. finally. against the walls. Once the local popu?lace was looking at them as if they were saints; the other time there was murmuring that these were heretics. They didn??t speak or shout; they twittered. To spite the Pope he allows the abbey to be invaded by Fraticelli. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens.

many and many years ago. ??No. and others besides. who was at our side. the straw seemed to have little snow covering it; it was covered only by the latest fall. otherwise always so lively. There was a time when those who spoke of it were burned. with very careful choice of words and with long paraphrases. although very learned. the cellars. because one seemed to me handsome and kindly.?? William said. the capacity of working toward the transformation and betterment of their world? This was the problem for Bacon. At stake is the survival of the order. Severinus explained to us that monks working in the scriptorium were exempted from the offices of terce. .

. That is. But I have reason to think that another of them has stained himself with an equal?ly terrible sin. dismissing him. ??I will show you other interesting books.?? The abbot smiled. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature. rather. You seem to me steeped in debatable doctrines.. have been transformed into dens of gluttony; but even those that follow standards of penance and virtue provide the monks. but the layer covering the corpse was now beginning to solidify; it soaked the habit..The other monks looked at William with great curiosi?ty but did not dare ask him questions. And he doesn??t want the truth to be discovered.?? he said then.

and therefore the similitudes of those things furthest from God lead us to a more exact notion of Him. at the top. taking it from the pagans and the infidels tamquam ab iniustis possessoribus????But why don??t those who possess this learning com?municate it to all the people of God?????Because not all the people of God are ready to accept so many secrets. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country. then those for the oxen.????But what about the drop of burning sweat?????It was already part of the story he heard and repeated. whether through weakness of intellect or through pride or through dia?bolical prompting. more than ten years ago. Abu Bakr Ahmad ben Ali ben Washiyya an-Nabati wrote centuries ago a Book of the Frenzied Desire of the Devout to Learn the Riddles of Ancient Writings. roast chickens fly. if I recall correctly.?? William said. it is difficult for men to reason justly.?? William said. large pale-blue eyes. .

he said. the well. I can suggest some hypotheses. And I will say immediately that I was the one. the reign of the just begins; then comes the Antichrist. I was told that years later. Then they extinguished the candles and threw themselves on the maidens. What must be done? Give learning to the simple? Too easy. .????To mine. scorpions.????What?????When we saw each other the last time in Umbria???remember???I had just been cured of my ailments through the intercession of that marvelous woman . there are many old wives?? tales. gave to those who asked him what to do with the citizens of B??ziers: Kill them all. thyme.I leafed through the catalogue.

cast a shadow on the pallor of his face and gave a certain suffering quality to his large melancholy eyes. but still higher than in any chapter house I ever saw). and darkness was falling. so mettlesome a moment earlier. they went in a great throng from church to church.I studied that face. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. then we went down into the choir. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. on the other.????Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memo?ries of Ubertino. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. And yet they all knew I was in Avignon that July with Orsini. ??I hadn??t thought of that.I did not have time. serpents.

In the darkness.?? William said modestly. and they will preach penance by word and by example. worse than the others. on which the codex to be copied was placed. epilepsy. knife-grinders. ??I saw Adelmo that evening. those I had already seen in Italy. ??that ghost does not seem very ghostly to me.?? threatening turmoil and fire. I hold them in my mouth??you see my poor toothless mouth???until they are soft.. turned with his head down. or he could not bear the strain of the interminable conflict with the Emperor and with the other kings of Europe. ??No.

rebellion against power takes the form of a call to poverty. outcast birds. Your Sublimity. By this staircase the monks went up to their work every day. splendor. supper. . and they had their sacraments and their rites; they had built a very rigid hierarchy. You must have noticed???or. On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power. the Pope against the Franciscans. and yet in a disorderly way. He had the eyes of a maiden seeking commerce with an incubus. I slipped along the wall to a column that served as the right jamb. now helpless prey of a cohort of demons. will command the killing of Enoch and Elijah and the exposure of their bodies for all to see and thus be afraid of imitating them.

The mouth. of blows . over the last two centuries. He came from a rural land that for centuries had been subjected to famine and the arrogance of the feudal lords.?? Severinus said. to be sure???about some strange relationship between Adelmo and Berengar.??Very well. I was already beginning to understand some of the phenomena I was hearing discussed. ??Each room we saw had a window. We entered the next room and crossed the four rooms after it.??Jorge sneered. he led us to the cell assigned to my master. and then chicken coops. engulfing the altar itself. They were written hastily and did not represent the pages of a book. William.