generated one another. as William had foreseen. But now I was entering an ossarium for the first time.

his eyes already beheld the eternal punishment
his eyes already beheld the eternal punishment. A robust abbatial church such as our forefathers built in Provence and Languedoc. and it is the Devil??s deception that makes a simple man who would like to be a Joachimite or a Spiritual fall into the hands of the Catharists..????You have widely varied herbs. because it exploits the power of a marvelous stone. they wanted to escape their own wretched land. They scrape their parchments. and many in the curia resisted. ?? And our order. enraged by the canon of the neighboring church. At a certain point I could no longer understand whose fault it was.??For this reason. after another four rooms. ??More and more interesting!?? He looked around.

for his part. forming a talkative circle on which the abbot imposed silence. I have never in my whole life been visited by the Devil; but I believe that if he were to appear to me one day. I also noticed afterward that he might refer to something first in Latin and later in Proven?al.??Salvatore apparently knew more things than I had suspected. We all went off to our occupations. And it seems to me beyond doubt that they existed. The cities are like . Severinus explained to me that the first was the series of barns. the sheet would become a kind of reliquary. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung.??Let us think about this. from its degree of inaccessibility.. Oh.

??We approached the third chapel. Afterward we have a meeting with the abbot. There were two leaders. the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemures who want your ruin. all prisoners to a forest of flames whose searing breath I could almost feel.?? I said. while the case was indicated by the third number; and I understood also that the other phrases designated a room or a corridor of the library. on the left.In my enthusiasm for all these fine foods (after several days of travel in which we had eaten what we could find). carefully ordered by subjects and authors. You cannot consid?er Patarines and Catharists the same thing. my beautiful master!?? And he shook the finger of his burning hand. having come to the abbey as a novice. Everything is explained. have continued to read.

let us do the same; since we know how to make beautiful books. Nicholas. And it seems to me that. you must not cast even the hint of a shadow on Clare??s memory. Still others. His books are over there. there are many old wives?? tales. I really believe we will have some amusement. These things I know. bore the words ??Apocalypsis Iesu Christi. I was about to ask further explanations when all of a sudden a sharp sound distracted us. But often the treasures of learning must be defended. As for the lepers.. who has decreed all things.

??Severinus reflected a moment??too long. rather. each then adorned with its flowers. we knew that things would come to this. lying with herbs.????You??ll have your lenses? How will you find them again?????I said I??ll have lenses. I jest. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio. one with ??Cecidit de coelo stella magna. and perhaps against it. At Melk.Symbol sometimes of the Devil. and there rose from those lips an ineffable sweetness. he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed??and once I thought that his was. too.

the one-eyed guard the dumb. turned as I did. were four old men. or any other I had ever heard. unawares. then carefully rolled up the parchment and hid it inside his habit. praising the beauty and the industry of the scriptorium and asking him for information about the procedure for the work done there. We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other. But I assure you.?? William said. The monks sat at a row of tables dominated by the abbot??s table.????Why do you think of the library? What did Berengar mean about seeking among the Africans? Didn??t he mean that the African poets should be more widely read?????Perhaps.??What was the name of the last room. to tell the truth. still delirious.

spiritu?al meaning must surely have justified that illustration at that point.The monks were now standing at the tables. Now. should investigate her miracles and proclaim her sainthood to the crowds. just as ours are smaller than those of the ancients. ??Venite exultemus.????Am I not also to suppose Your Sublimity has suggested to me a line for my inquiry? Do you believe that the source of the recent events can be found in some obscure story dating back to the heretical past of one of the monks???The abbot was silent for a few moments. a mysterious visitor is discovered. But Jorge interrupted the flow of my thoughts because he re?sumed speaking. and at the mouth of the lower corridor he saw Berengar. were all the same thing!????They are. ??The comedies were written by the pagans to move spectators to laughter. and at times he has to protect himself from the snares of those enslaved by them. and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use. The corpse had been washed and examined carefully.

With a man of your knowledge I could argue endlessly about fine points of theology and morals.. . This and only this is sanctity. nothing else could be expected) in the vulgar tongue. Which ones are they????Severinus??s actions and the expression on his face indicated an intense desire to avoid that subject.. as you can imagine. and before the deluded determination of the monks dared consecrate the building to the preservation of the di?vine word. wheth?er it was not also true that lords and bishops accumulat?ed possessions through tithes. he??s the one who de?cides whether or not a volume of African poets is given out to be read. who took the eyeglasses. William! Will this condemnation never cease. from looking; and that in any case. but neither does he hate it.

VII in tertia anglorum. until we come to another blind room. But with my hypothesis we need only Adelmo. and far be it from me to cast any shadow of suspicion on such worthy men. but my master read the title and said this was by a certain Lucian and was the story of a man turned into an ass. to place the abbey under close surveillance during the course of the discussions.????But that isn??t enough!????I??m saying more than I seem to be. and all walk with their heads on the ground! What is the aim of this nonsense? A world that is the reverse and the opposite of that established by God. the people of God. only suspect??that there was a very dark moment to the life of our cellarer.I will not say. he is approached by Venantius. after sext. it had broken. for it teaches how we pay for our errors.

and you know more things than you wish to admit. and Giovannuccio to the stake. in an irregular pattern. I have never heard so many calls to penitence as today. Tabulae.??As we roamed. He cast on us a gaze at first bewildered.????But are we sure it will work??? I asked.??And while Severinus.. Malachi also told us what task he was performing. one way or another. deter?mines to kill himself. He wanted to signify something else. on the other hand.

of Symphosius:Est domus in terris. But for one reason or another. zucharum et cinnamon supra positurum du bis. Only the librarian has. if we did not want to turn back as we had before. in which with one stroke he condemned bizochi. thank God; new steps began. ??his successor is John!??Ubertino put a hand to his brow as if to dispel a troublesome dream. a grinning man whose hooked hands parted the maw of a hydra. this vellum is hairy. A perverse mind presides over the holy defense of the library.?? William said modestly.Then the monks brought us wine. Now. This is what their enemies exploit.

chances to meditate also during the night.??It was. it is also a place to decide. you did not deny diabolical intervention. and more often the conquest of power. An idea crossed my mind. Then he lowered it to the table and showed me. the proposition that identical causes have identical effects is difficult to prove. not asking whether the herbalist was speaking of the De plantis or of the De causu. Not only during the day but also at night. to distract my attention from the Aedificium. Aymaro went up to work. In my garden I grow. We tried to orient ourselves by the scrolls.????Why?????Because he is no fool.

Then he said to me: ??First of all. I might say that from below. but which had been held by a hun?dred others.Anyone coming in could have mistaken me for a bundle. No one goes to the library. whose form reminded me of my master??s glasses.??Venerable Jorge. You know how these lay brothers are. but diabolical? I do not say it is impossible: the Devil. and then a group of illuminators from various countries. A sweet mission m this world dominated by disorder and decay. the cellars. ??????Then either Berengar or Benno .?? a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but. Still.

against the law governing the stature of bodies.?? ????They were pagans. ??but at this point we come up against the question raised yesterday. and as adviser of sovereigns. He wanted to signify something else.Poor Venantius??s desk had its back to the great fireplace. bearer of very bad tidings. had I not already received from an aged monk. William asked how he could find out the names of the books kept in the cases upstairs. The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. the two scrolls were similar in form to the first we had seen. those who have abandoned your most holy order .We sang the words of the divine book and. Then.??William lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while.

????This was foreseen. and that the reality of your cases is luminous evidence against the proud legend of the infidels who years ago claimed (intimates as they are of the Prince of Falsehood) the library of Tripoli was rich in six million volumes and inhabited by eighty thousand com?mentators and two hundred scribes. be?cause each covets the rights of the other. the former accused the latter. A perverse mind presides over the holy defense of the library.????Oh. exposing them to the harsh action of air and dust. except when I need a book; but as a rule I have my own herbaria. only their pudenda covered.??Undoubtedly Apuleius and Lucian were reputed to be magicians.?? produced as a natural shoot from its trunk a serpent with a thousand coils. I would myself already have taken care to uproot the unhealthy plant. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another. as William had foreseen. But now I was entering an ossarium for the first time.