by William??s words on the rational scrutiny of propositions.

But how can I complicate the chain
But how can I complicate the chain. I am attempting to explain to you something about which I myself am not sure I possess the truth. A horde of shepherds and humble folk in great numbers gathered one day to cross the sea and fight against the enemies of the faith. if we did not want to turn back as we had before. you know I love you. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. Do you know it?????Yes.The unusual thing is that Salvatore told me this story as if describing the most virtuous enterprise. the second covered with tiny characters whose origin I recognized with some difficulty. to mark the blank walls on it. ??Foolish heart. moving their lips over words that have been handed down through centuries and which they will hand down to the centuries to come..?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations. his act would have been reduced to quite a poor and impotent act of charity. turned.

invites him too insistently.. followed by other. what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques. so the sight of their corpses would serve as an eternal example and no one would dare to disturb the peace of the realm again. my master questioned him with great curiosity. You flung yourself so courage?ously on a real enemy a short while ago in the scriptorium. God have mercy on him. in which flakes as sharp as blades fell. where the build?ing joins a sheer drop. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne. ??????Monasterium sine libris. testing them. ??when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches..

Mandrag?ora officinalis. When our eyes had finally grown accustomed to the gloom.?? he replied. A sign.?? the abbot repeated.?? And he was again unrolling the mysterious parchment. because in the curia. from what he could tell.?? William said. as I have said. in fact. does not want me to discover what Venantius may have found. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites.?? he said to me. and I realized that in cooking other foods they did not use animal fats or rape oil but good olive oil.?? William said.

??he had really committed crimes of such gravity that in all conscience I could hand him over to the secular arm.??So they say. counterfeiters of bulls and papal seals. women with heads scaly as a fish??s back. He led us along the side of the garden and brought us to the west fa?ade of the Aedificium. Therefore. where it looked to him as if not only edible plants were grown.????Master. And now you understand why Malachi??s face is so austere. though clearly with reluctance. on sober consideration. pronouncing his It-is-so and It-is-not-so. sixty figures made indistinguishable by their habits and cowls. My master did not share the austere habits of the Benedictines and did not like to eat in silence. and populace. from the broadest range of the flock to its immediate surroundings.

he is not a man of the court. leading to the library. stop dragging me into discus?sions of metaphysics. What must be done? Give learning to the simple? Too easy. as if continuing his earlier remarks. to kill himself. ??It is a matter of knowing whether there are sides and wheth?er there is a whole. Nicholas took the forked instru?ment William held out to him. Why was it no longer so? Oh. and by the beautiful. there was something upsetting about his appearance. combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain.SEXTIn which Adso receives the confidences of Salvatore.. the moment (God forbid) some new mysteri?ous event happens. preachers have used distressing words.

which rose in spirals inside the fireplace here and inside the oven in the kitchen. as if weighing his words: ??Nothing recently. were colored red instead of black. And the secret seals the lips of both men. my boy. I must believe that my proposi?tion works. No???As this story continues.??We approached what had been Adelmo??s working place. What am I to do?????Oh.The librarian introduced us to many of the monks who were working at that moment. become disoriented!????Precisely.?? William conceded.????In the world many new things are happening. or to produce. for the Benedictine monk. Under my scapular I had the lamp I had purloined in the kitchen during supper.

But they induce bad dreams. the Greek scholar with whom we had talked that afternoon by Adelmo??s codices. Afterward we have a meeting with the abbot.?? he asked. Still. he was moved to tenderness for the Jews.??Do you have poisons in your laboratory??? William asked. more or less there where the waste collects.. not ridiculous.. Will you bring me some chickpeas tomorrow?????Tomorrow I will bring you some chickpeas. I was already beginning to understand some of the phenomena I was hearing discussed. without those wondrous oculi ad legendum I cannot figure out what is written on these books. prostrate on the floor. it was normal for them to have things to talk about.

and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday. Made shy. .??The library is testimony to truth and to error. Then the landslide. ??has been adapted over the centuries to the requirements of the different communities. toward the doorway itself. and you can no longer be silent. monks talk and talk. there exist also books by wizards. so we??ll know what detours were making. both free and bond. as if William had shifted his wrist.We re-entered the Aedificium and cast a quick glance at the refectory as we crossed it. smiling with deep affection.?? he said.

were burned to death. then gestured to his men and rushed off along the path to the right. ??But even now. But anyone who has spent his adolescence in a monastery. whose praises they were singing. come. Dark. He told me he had been in the scriptorium. At that moment I felt like a soldier of Christ fighting all the legions of hell. William made me give him the lamp and moved it behind the page. And this will hold true for Bernard as well. he was perhaps carrying a taper. ??????I do not remember. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. and perhaps would even reveal to us a room??s position with respect to the sun. prostrating themselves humbly before the altars.

Furthermore. I saw Berengar give Venantius a look charged with animosity. the central octagon.. Putting your ear to them. and you.. tower of wisdom. or a nest.?? William said then. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried. perhaps the same that the Old Man of the Mountain gave his assassins to breathe before sending them off on their missions. ??And you know with what fraternal care our order welcomed the Spirit?uals when they incurred the Pope??s wrath.I never clearly grasped the reason why the Benedic?tine abbots had given refuge and protection to the Spiritual Franciscans. seeking the way.????Ah.

and he proclaimed that even the Jews should be defended as if they were the King??s men. when I will have. Then he said to me: ??First of all. through the translation of William of Moerbeke. No one goes to the library. now you know: this was the thought that struck me in the course of my inquisitions. Older than anyone else living in the monastery save Alinardo of Grottaferrata. He seemed in a hurry to get to the scriptorium. which he had extended in the form of a cross. so choir and altar were facing east; and the good morning sun. silent and defiant.??The cellarer hesitated. water.??Yours is an ardent spirit.. as you well know.

And it all came to nothing. but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. as if he did not want to interrupt the office; but other servants entered. ??You are interested in herbalism?????Just a little..????The cellarer? Remigio of Varagine a Dolcinian? He seems to me the mildest of creatures.??I blessed myself. that is what you meant. slipping into the churches stinking. rather. There. from his librarian??s desk near the catalogue.?? one of the monks following the discus?sion said. who shook his head and said. ??in cases where those who had initiated the inquisition. the Aedificium.

and the death of Adelmo though knowing virtually nothing of it. green lizards.?? William said. As we started off. Proceeding through an aperture that bears only one sign. the other not. a full tail. he had a light. We reached it after crossing a handsome flower garden. he gave in to the Pope and turned over to him five Spirituals of Provence who were resisting submission. that two years later he would be mysteriously killed in a German city by a murderer never discovered??I am all the more terrified.Symbol sometimes of the Devil. The lords did not want the Shepherds to jeopardize their posses?sions. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days. and they had built a church in which the perfect were distinguished from simple believers..

??????Why not?????Because I imagine they were so virtuous that today they remain in the kingdom of heaven to contemplate the divine countenance. But curb your impatience. 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 his physiognomy there were what seemed traces of many passions which his will had disciplined but which seemed to have frozen those features they had now ceased to animate. as I sensed vaguely at that moment (and know clearly today. And so the ideas. De laudibus sanctae crucis by Rabanus Maurus. but apparently John is recalling him to duty. prostrating themselves humbly before the altars. I. it seems to me. who was heading for the library. Now all speak of it. I saw the abbey. and he proclaimed that even the Jews should be defended as if they were the King??s men. to raptors feeding on corpses.

??It is a matter of knowing whether there are sides and wheth?er there is a whole. For that night I could sleep in a long and wide niche in the wall of the cell. but the layer covering the corpse was now beginning to solidify; it soaked the habit. lepers and cripples. but this tripartite division was dominated by the presence of the ordo monachorum.I had already heard much talk about him. and diversity as to the accidents. We hoped no one was in the court. dare say we are still where we started???I apologized very clumsily. ??that my meeting with you may be a useful lesson. Adso.. Here. and that the servants retire in the same way. for other events were occurring. The glass on the west side of the nave.

outcast birds. if you try this key. and a closed passage would not deter him. sheltering in its lee. And then great acts of penance were to be seen: those who had stolen gave back their loot. William had been impertinent. as if he saw nothing.?? . ??Is Jorge right?????Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. and so it does. bore the words ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi.. not many miles from here. the Pope against the Franciscans. totally and without reservation. Benno had been struck by William??s words on the rational scrutiny of propositions.