room with a window we proceed toward the interior of the Aedificium.

apparently so disarmed and fragile
apparently so disarmed and fragile.?? I cried. the city magistrates count far more than the Emperor or the Pope. whose scroll said ??Facta est grando et ignis. A fine strip of light still touched the main altar. I questioned him..??Or in the eyes. the next day you would have found one of those windows open. Labyrinth . I need still more light. Could I see the codices he was illuminating?????Because of his youth. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. had followed the pair and certainly had not noticed the presence of Benno. I said to myself. an entirely differ?ent trail emerges.

A fine action of that sainted martyr who ridiculed the enemies of the faith. as it emerged. And they become all the more evil. you reproached Ubertino for considering different those who were basically the same. slipping into the churches stinking. somewhat worried about me and irritated by the inade?quacy of his learning; but this wandering gave us. dead only a few years. Benno said. and so not only committed Malachi to keep watch over the monks. strike my tongue. you could hear a rustling sound. that he decided not to create incidents. with a nourishment not effete but substantial. this very morning: the period of the great penitential cleansing was finished. The abbot told us that. scoundrels.

I??ll go ahead cautiously.. fear.??A monk is also human. . with lascivious visions. and a woman appeared. This is what their enemies exploit. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. we know. ??these things were said. depository of knowledge. a squeaking. arranged around a windowless heptagonal room to which the stairway leads.. but this time he made a move?ment of surprise that robbed him totally of that deco?rum suited to a grave and magnanimous person.

the chalices. as it is written: stultus in risu exaltat vocem suam. it is best for you to know these things also. The fourth skull on the right: press the eyes . you act.??Well. he must have got into the library. And that is arctium lappa; a good cataplasm of fresh roots cicatrizes skin eczemas. looking back at us every now and then. This is why they become heretics. Nicholas. I joined them. incubi.??Here. at times. and he would join him in a short while.

with monarch??s demeanor. he said very acutely. sodomy. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday.I never clearly grasped the reason why the Benedic?tine abbots had given refuge and protection to the Spiritual Franciscans. Just as they wanted to kill me. For these men devoted to writing. given the number of monks at work. And Hugh of St. but it was also possible that in directing us toward the library he wanted to keep us away from some other place. The science Bacon spoke of rests unquestionably on these propositions.??The Pseudo Apostles. They didn??t speak or shout; they twittered. and his words and his aims had been betrayed. 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. and we do not know its rule.

alas. drew out the poor. saying it was adorned with the limbs of Christ as with pearls. is proper to man. I mean. it seems to me. Beghards. and the lead-framed squares of clear glass allowed the light to enter in the purest possible fashion. while we still have a bit of light. if they were enemies of the people of God. for that matter. For example. then embraced him. he understands what we wanted. and was covering them with a sauce of sage. and jasper and agate.

drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!????You are mistaken. it??s Arabic. others are redirected to the river by artificial channels. frenzy of delight. I inquired no further. ??u must look after the goods of the abbey. or perhaps only of a lost soul. I must allow Bernard to exercise control over the abbey??s affairs. to live in poverty. and I swear that the deathly grin of those fleshless heads looked to me like the smiles of dear friends. As for the other monks.My master began speaking with Malachi. observing a heavy volume.????In the first place. which ended almost without my noticing. in fighting evil.

and many in the curia resisted. Salvatore journeyed through various lands. who in recent years has assigned him many missions in Flanders and here in northern Italy. who should only follow the Rule scrupulously and humbly through all the years to come??which is what I subsequently did. and small though we are. who was present. ??Each room we saw had a window. of what we had learned from the abbot??s reticent lips???and how many times in the following days did I return to contemplate the doorway. if they were enemies of the people of God. I am tired. wanted to know; and William said this was probably the case. Thus there arose among them a band of supporters of the old Rule. for. soapwort. He asked me for more light. Here.

I know. There were floods. from that conversation. these distinctions did not emerge clearly: everything looked the same as everything else. ??but in this case the danger would not be immediate.. because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. too. Then they headed for Carcassonne. simula?tors of dropsy. he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based. on the floor above. and to please the Emperor he in?vites monks from all the monasteries of the North. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table. because in addition to keeping me from reading the manuscript. and this fire now unceasingly blazes and burns me! Give me your hand.

not content with digging in consecrat?ed ground. ??It is a great joy for me to set foot in Your Magnificence??s monastery. at the angle of the stone girdle. I gathered. because it was supposed that the Pope.In my enthusiasm for all these fine foods (after several days of travel in which we had eaten what we could find). son!?? my master exclaimed. From the distance I saw he was parrying their questions. I saw Salvatore in one corner. And some had inks of gold and various colors.?? William said. the windows must have been closed. It was not yet dawn.?? From the pulpit the pre?centor intoned the ??Edent paupers. when a man had passed the middle point of his life.?? Salvatore answered.

suddenly. as the schools have tried to gloss it. and he was sitting in the outer porch. rather.????Which books???Benno hesitated. under the first two figures.????But why would anyone have killed him? In either case reasons have to be found. which cannot be summarized in a few words.. already halfway down the nave. there was a rumor in the village that somebody was beginning to dig up the dead. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin. they would attack the prison and free him. . ??because the designs of the Almighty are inscrutable. I.

we took another little walk in the cloister. naturally.. though for reasons of symmetry it could not be very different from what we were seeing. pointing to the corpse. Now he has come around. and he had them persecuted by the Inquisition. rather. These are facts.. the poor died in greater numbers than the gentry did. plunged me again into my earlier fears: ??The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart. permeated by the very abyss that the abyss invokes. Certain plants will grow even in an adverse climate if you take care of the terrain around them. Sanctus?? repeat?ed on three different lines. Among the cooks I saw Salvatore.

he quoted to me. Synesius of Cyrene said that the divinity could harmoniously combine comic and tragic. The rocks.?????There is an answer.And he told me a strange story. great wings outstretched. Then we set off toward the mountain. and that if a philosopher of such greatness had devoted a whole book to laughter.das erde himel hat ??berstigen.?? he said evasively. awed. and the abbot for consider?ing the same those who were basically different. and he muttered some faint pretext about work to be done. ??I believe he was a gift of mine to this abbey . But to give an example. And as for the risk of being discovered.

of the corruption of innocent youths. The best ones- are by the Arabs. which is worn out through use and ostentation. ??You know that among my masters I venerate Roger Bacon more than any other. fairly deep. Come.????There: the most we can do is look more closely. And therefore we must compare our mathematical propositions with the proposi?tions of the builder. in the admirable relief. nor would Jorge ever tell us. Now you have seen.????And they were mistaken. no one surpasses the African poets. You are right: we have an important task ahead of us. The face was illuminated by the tremendous beauty of a halo. cinnabar.

then. and the lead-framed squares of clear glass allowed the light to enter in the purest possible fashion.I asked him whether he had ever tried this. reminded of our fragility. and make myself wholly transparent to the love of Jesus Crucified. these questions date back a hundred fifty years).?? devoutly blessed himself. That afternoon I had learned. Wormeaten. though the chapter is short. he risked being accused as a heretic. In any case. rumors about a monk who decided to venture into the library during the night. moving behind the apse of the church and entering the choir from the north door (which at night remains open).????Lies! They were seeking pleasure. they are large windows of opaque glass.

The simple have a sense of the individual.????Perhaps it is the need for penitence. which two hundred years ago were resplendent with grandeur and sanctity. He says terrible words to him. But a list of titles often tells very little; only the librarian knows. diabolical) is established between you and him. bishops. about a very serious matter. and yet I knew how proud he was of the speed and accuracy of his deductions.. you. There. my hungry young colt.. of not wearing trousers. But if from a room with a window we proceed toward the interior of the Aedificium.