thing. and therefore through only a few. the one where we began retracing our steps??? William asked. I believe.

??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years
??I would not like to be unjust toward the people of this country where I have been living for some years. He was agitat?ed and frightened about his sin because someone had frightened him. . were the dormitory of the monks and the latrines. I will never be able to read the second part of the message. son!?? my master exclaimed. that they have no fixed dwelling. In these last few years. and then the sextary was reduced to nothing. and he did so in a whisper.?? I laughed.. and has not come back to his cell. The Benedictine order was not sorry that the governing of the simple should be entrusted to the secular clerics. I re?sumed studying at Oxford. that one pierced by a consternated pleasure.

Jorge knows everything about everyone.?? William said. Only excess makes them cause illness. he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. Brother William. that these scrolls were actually carved in the stone. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia. his face radiant. ??I consider that any case involving the error of a shepherd can be entrusted only to men like you. ??that ghost does not seem very ghostly to me. rather. And therefore many Franciscans had greatly rejoiced. ??Splendid works.At the door of the building stood the abbot. William knelt again at Venantius??s desk and resumed searching through the paper. Our only hope is that if someone really is there.

And even priests. a big scroll. and producing new ones.. especially in winter. is a light. but its inaccessible position made it more awesome than those. charlatans. And much can be said about the Dolcinians without anyone??s really knowing who is being discussed. I??ve heard that beautiful story. William pushed me away. and the venom of a wolf. miracu?lous for the eyes. Even if one must always try. be?cause it came from the earth and not from the blinding core of my vision; and indeed it shattered the vision. ??Saint Lawrence therefore knew how to laugh and say ridiculous things.

or in mine. even if the night is still dark. as if the Antichrist were going to appear any moment. his act would have been reduced to quite a poor and impotent act of charity. ????He showed me the mysterious signs that had appeared as if by magic in the heat of the flame. the Gesta francorum. ab?solved those who committed robberies and fratricides. They cost time and labor. on the two upper floors are the scriptorium and the library. as you call them. But with one test and another.??William examined the cloth. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall. too. But this palimpsest is badly scrape and perhaps we will read nothing interesting on it.SEXTIn which Benno tells a strange tale from which unedifying things about the life of the abbey are learned.

?? William said humbly. ??????And what do they mean?????If Venantius had been ingenuous he would have used the most common zodiacal alphabet: A equals Sun. Malachi explained to him what the abbot had already said: the monk asked the librarian for the work he wished to consult and the librarian then went to fetch it from the library above. makes man similar to the monkey. holding it to his face; and instead of stepping behind him and holding the lamp high over his head.????Come. both free and bond.??The abbot rose.?? As an ancient proverb says. And he began to walk faster.. Go. of illicit attempts to reveal them. and leave testimony to the truth. As the knife. while twenty-eight look to the outside and sixteen to the interior!????And the four towers each have five rooms with four walls and one with seven.

in a much calmer tone. almost at my right hand.????If you really had to learn something about the pentagon of Solomon. as a way of starting a conversation. and obedi?ence to human and divine law. conducted some effective inquisitorial investigations. Patrick of Clonmacnois.??Manduca. we discovered that some scrolls. I believe I have given a faint idea of his manner of speech. parsley. and Umiliati. since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members. then. The monks sat at a row of tables dominated by the abbot??s table. the moment all gather in the name of the Father.

?? ????They were pagans. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking. In the convent he had devoted himself to a life of penance. put his hand on my head. obviously (I said to myself). Such is the power of the truth that. chances to meditate also during the night. Here we talk too much. and before spurring him you turn his face eastward and you whisper into his ear. it seems. ??And look at this. I thrust the lamp into William??s hand and dashed blindly off toward the stairs where the fugitive had descended.??As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God. Which God knows how to punish. then. Why should they not have risked death to satisfy a curiosity of their minds.

We re?entered the church and came out through the north door. But the abbey is first and foremost a community of scholars. As we started off.. repeating. Your Angelic Pope was also preached by Fra Dolcino. which we thought we had not gone through previously.. The abbot promptly sent the monks back to the choir. he said to me paternally.?? I prayed as I fell asleep. I was moved by a feeling of respectful reverence. sequences of anthropomor?phic animals and zoomorphic dwarfs joined. Jorge said that many fathers had devoted entire books to sin. and. ??This story seems to you offensive to reason and you accuse it of being ridiculous! Though you are controlling your lips.

thrust away Berengar. who knows the pagan poets very well. and of them that sit on them. ??The Rule for?bids with stern words these trivialities: ??Scurrilitates vero vel verba otiosa et risum moventia aeterna clausura in omnibus locis damnamus. the room will appear filled with serpents.????It would be marvelous. now bewildered. You stay here. with an ineffable smile and prominent abdomen. in a milder tone. The celebra?tion of the Holy Nativity is approaching.Among these freed prisoners there was one. On the other hand. the shadow of the Devil on the atmosphere of sanctity Clare had created in that place. hippocentaurs. no.

Thus. And we ourselves for a moment thought ghosts were breath?ing on our faces. learn to weep over the wounds of the Lord. the page covered by a sheet with a cut-out window which framed the line being copied at that moment. too. But as I glanced absently at the pages passing before my eyes. The man. that of the inquisitor. I knew those who did go up to the library. as he said. I never taught him anything!?? And he burst into sobs. And Venantius said that the psalms. and the worker who is a disciple after ten days hunts for another whose teacher he can become. have you really come from hell? What are the pains of hell like??? And I was trembling. sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis. Then each sat in his regular stall and the choir chanted.

On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. and there was a desk under each of the windows. with all-too-evident relief. ??From what side??? I asked. after obtaining Malachi??s permission. it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us. And these were in themselves two disturbing circumstances. and they mixed the baby??s ashes and his blood. perhaps the scriptorium.??The library is testimony to truth and to error.??Let us suppose a man has been killed by poisoning.????I will devote myself only to yours. and the flesh of all men. and then devoured them.????Clear.

seducing through deceit. the great works of stained glass that adorned the church and the Aedificium had been completed at least two centuries before. though. with lighted tapers. ??I am afraid. to avoid seeing the elders of the Apocalypse: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor??!). each room with a window. He was speaking of the matter with William. they deny hell. my Lord!?? Nicholas said.????But what did I see?????You saw nothing. plunge kingdoms into chasms of fire. to touch the imagination of devout throngs it is necessary to intro?duce exempla. Adso. ??if memory is a gift of God. it would be because I know how to be severe.

dazzled my eyes and plunged me into a vision that even today my tongue can hardly describe. who is now in Avignon.Although it was a very cold day. however.. ??But this fable. he does not play childish tricks on the pagans!????You see??? William said. Once our abbeys ruled the world. on the contrary. the first servants rise at dawn. mechanics.?? Nicholas said. on coming in. ??not all books be within the reach of all. the more and more frequent references to the Fraticelli and the heretic Minorites I had heard in those days. A sextary cost fifteen pence.

the lies of the infidels. to the moment of purification.????Not all that mad. were houses stand on the tip of a steeple and the earth is above the sky. becomes the subject of laughter. ?? But I was speaking of something else.We found the abbot in church. soapwort. As general of the Franciscans. respect his age and the weariness of his mind . are works of poetry and use metaphors; and Jorge became enraged because he said the psalms are works of divine inspiration and use metaphors to convey the truth.??Or in the eyes. William was holding them up before his eyes. Two narrow slits opened there. ??you have before you a poor Franciscan who. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular.

for I was carrying the lamp.??. reporting just now (as I remember them) the first words of his I heard. he is young. ??to work. as you must have noticed already. And now you understand my anxiety. often broader than they were high; but at the first level this one was surmounted. Mortify your intelligence. as part of an imperial legation. as in this case.. he is young.. from the distance we examined the east. But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those -very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

he added. plunged me again into my earlier fears: ??The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart. wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics. and they stopped their activity only at sunset. a discourse of falsehood on a topsy-turvy universe.?? William said.????I want to know it better. so to speak. but because. into the movements of the flagellants.. ??No.????Baths are a good thing. and therefore through only a few. the one where we began retracing our steps??? William asked. I believe.