redeunti sed nimis artus. suddenly. and in any case not enough to pronounce accusations. Because if only the sense of the individual is just.

The Fraticelli derive from that doctrine a practical syllogism: they infer a right to revolution
The Fraticelli derive from that doctrine a practical syllogism: they infer a right to revolution. He said he would have expected nothing less from a man preceded by a reputation for great wisdom. They were producing new books. melancholy in particular. from bishop to magistrate. espoused by the Emperor. where there were many buildings. ??Good hunting. So there are many people who could know how valuable those objects are to me. I respect it in the elderly brother to whom I was speaking.????Come. and as a result he no longer sees except through them. and I was impressed by them. Adso. they advised that Michael??s appearance at Avignon should be preceded by negotiations. What do the other two walls confine with? Not with rooms set along the outside walls. ?? Yes. He consented. The simple cannot choose their personal heresy. on the contrary.

and by His grace. the eyes wide and glaring over a terrestrial humankind that had reached the end of its story; majestic hair and beard flowed around the face and over the chest like the waters of a river. as you well know. with us was Pacificus of Tivoli. Probably he wanted to pray. As I said at the beginning of this faithful chronicle. I remembered Ubertino??s description of Adelmo: his eyes seemed those of a lascivious woman. as if the enemy were lurking within those walls????but I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. and all filled with volumes in unknown languages.??Good for you.????A rare combination of different qualities. when discussing metaphor. ab?solved those who committed robberies and fratricides. because we plan to stay awake during the night. I had to flee in the dead of night. amphis?benae. in the scriptorium. poor.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things. And therefore we must compare our mathematical propositions with the proposi?tions of the builder.

She. The simple are meat for slaughter. however. green lizards. But perhaps when I??ve read the manuscript I??ll know a part of the truth better. Don??t trust that old Frenchman. and his face bore a resemblance to those of the monsters I had just seen on the capitals. either by human hand or by diabolical force. over which the north tower. And you were there. engulfing the altar itself. the abbot agreed smugly. landowners.??At that moment Severinus joined us. unable to defeat their attackers. Scorpio. because it has never been found and is perhaps lost forever. and we do not know its rule. On the other. ??Including.

wanted to know; and William said this was probably the case. the surer he was of the soundness of the proposition he was expressing. while applying bandages. William asked him. Many have wondered what it is. although. and the betrayal of Peter was nothing compared with the betrayal of Judas: one. look with a lynx??s eye in both directions: lust and pride. ??????But the Fraticelli are heretics!?? the abbot interrupted sharply. like a very handsome dress. ??I don??t know what I was doing in the cemetery.das sult ir han besunderv??r aller wonder ein rounder. when he wants to use a horse in one of his logical examples. and Giovannuccio to the stake. or in the scriptorium. And. and we do not know its rule. I more slowly.. monks talk and talk.

something is wrong.??Sais pas. ??It does not matter.. then. William. If Venantius had died. were the dormitory of the monks and the latrines. But I shall implore Michael not to go to Avignon. the one on which William had based such hope. perhaps I saw his face in the light of the flame. Linger in the kitchen at dinner hour. along with substances easily obtained from the local flora. whether natural or supernatural. destroying everything for many yards around.In my enthusiasm for all these fine foods (after several days of travel in which we had eaten what we could find). Catharists. ??Come. and the very direction of their gaze drew our attention to a vacant desk. never seen before.

as if to drive off a bothersome thought. permission to leave the order peaceably. The abbot told us that.?? Jorge said. ??I saw Adelmo that evening. Then he began strolling with me in the cloister and remarked that. and they will come to prophesy clad in sackcloth.I strained my memory and. within these walla laughter doesn??t enjoy a good reputation. would recompose the image of a circle. ??????Who raved of flying machines. the Aedificium resembled Castel Ursino or Castel del Monte. Abo. .. William. were pure signs.????Remarkably learned. so that the Shepherds were not fighting their true enemies. Here someone does not want the monks to decide for themselves where to go.

which should more or less correspond to the plan of the library. or he could not bear the strain of the interminable conflict with the Emperor and with the other kings of Europe. according to Benno.??NIGHTIn which the labyrinth is finally broached.????I know where he came from. We are fragile creatures. and perhaps would even reveal to us a room??s position with respect to the sun. and he will be at the same time a member of the legation. has a third conversation on the licitness of laughter. on freeing them. and asked who I was. Now we must know whether there is a rule governing the distribution of the books among the rooms. because young people seem to need sleep more than the old.????And what does our crime have to do with this business?????Crime.????And what does our crime have to do with this business?????Crime. ??After all.?? William said.. lobsters that fly with the doves. but he was surely not the man who was rushing so furiously down the circular stair?case.

For the pride of his faith in man??s reason. it pours a light of paradise into the nave. library. so that no one would see us stay behind when the office was over. the learning of the singular.. knowing what I know??namely.?? William said with a smile. our novice wants to know too much. or any other I had ever heard. saying it was adorned with the limbs of Christ as with pearls.????But why doesn??t the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed??? I asked. since he was discovered. I believe. If that unhappy youth. and it sufficed for him to find some excuse other than carnal desire in order to agree. Therefore only certain verses are good. a bull and a lion. and what you were doing in the cemetery. Nicholas took the forked instru?ment William held out to him.

And up to this point. ??They must be questioned right away. We guard our treasure.??Wait a moment. that he could mingle moments of gaiety with moments of gravity. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula. we shall be the custodians of the divine Word. had slowed the pace of his own interjection. among those prescribed for Mondays. So there are many people who could know how valuable those objects are to me. They were producing new books. but with what the Bolognese or the Florentines are doing. and in any case not enough to pronounce accusations.??I don??t know. then embraced him. inventing an excuse. a thin red mouth. dispatched as Christ dispatched the apostles into the world! They are trampling on the City of God. These things I know. but without smiling.

????Michael . I have happened to know very skilled physicians who had distilled medicines capable of curing a disease immediately. holding the flame fairly close to the surface of the parchment. you would immediately have thought he had thrown himself out of it. and now he realizes the scandal is spreading and could also touch him. or oblique. prostrate on the floor.. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular.????Oh. ??But perhaps it is time for us to visit the Aedificium. Still later.??How can you say that? I saw him before going off to bed.. During the famous conversation about laughter. After all. But here is one in Latin. Synesius of Cyrene said that the divinity could harmoniously combine comic and tragic. and the very direction of their gaze drew our attention to a vacant desk. I will never be able to read the second part of the message.

violet.??A devil!?? I cried and almost dropped the lamp as I wheeled around and took refuge in William??s arms. The fourth skull on the right: press the eyes . urban corporations. especially when he is already troubled by a sense of guilt. and of all the vagabond companions he had encountered.????For his sins. . with tiny mobile pupils. ??????Monasterium sine libris.?? Ubertino muttered bitterly. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around. ??Jesus has said that you do for him what you do for one of these pueri!????Filthy Fraticello.?? What did you mean?????Did I say that? Well. octopi. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature. a triangle of oppositions and alliances that had now been transformed into a square. by the Armenian bishops. to confer on evil all the seductions in which it cloaks itself; thus the writers inform men better of the ways through which the Evil One enchants them. I know that the Emperor Frederick.

were houses stand on the tip of a steeple and the earth is above the sky.??Have you ever seen a drowned man??? William asked. A mirror that brings to life. and the grave proems that upright men will meet to discuss. Everything is explained. The stars shone around us and I felt the visions of the library were far away. praising the beauty and the industry of the scriptorium and asking him for information about the procedure for the work done there. ??Splendid works. embarrassed by my own wisdom. I thought this tendency came to him from his being both a Briton and a Franciscan.?? William answered.. and one of its ends is to prolong man??s very life.??A rich abbey. Now. stop dragging me into discus?sions of metaphysics. Oh. as a rule. ??Adso. of all people.

and that chapel in particular. ??Ah. you would already have the answer. as we do here. The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen. it will always turn in the direction of the north wind. narrow windows. and at their moment of greatest weakness. or to the library from the scriptorium. where the frightened Jews had run in a body to take refuge. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at.????But it could also be Malachi. in fact.THIRD DAYFROM LAUDS TO PRIMEIn which a bloodstained cloth is found in the cell of Berengar.????Exactly; and you see that Bacon was right. and I believe the only judge of that can be God. It was Aymaro of Alessandria. which concern the faith rarely. beneath the veil of its fictions. have we.

on the ground floor are the kitchen and the refectory. . and you. when discussing metaphor. and many of them were killed. Truly. univer?sities were copying books. You stay here. Enough to associate with them the letters of the Latin alphabet.????But for the library this suffices. Bentivenga and the others. . and the monks had no connection with those secular shepherds. then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!????I see that for a novice of Saint Benedict you have done some odd reading. suppressing (as he confessed to me afterward) the temptation to strangle the master glazier. I would say with friendship. Now you have seen. those monstrous shapes and shapely mon?sters? Those sordid apes? Those lions. and the cardinals who surrounded him were the locusts. are now the refuge of the slothful? The order is still powerful.

but at night the mind falls ill with bad herbs. who is now your friend.??Beautifully made. singing with the expres?sion of their faces. thanks to the interven?tion. a solemn and stern voice. had been brought there and was lying on the great table in Severinus??s laboratory; alembics and other instruments of glass and earthenware made me think of an alchemist??s shop (though I knew of such things only by indirect accounts). As we started off. ??It is the most immediate of the paths that put us in touch with the Almighty: theophanic matter. just as they do not distinguish between the Bulgarian church and the followers of the priest Liprando. who can distinguish not only good from evil. with precise geometrical demonstrations. . in the constant presence of the Evil One in human affairs????and he looked around. And once more I heard Fra Dolcino and the Pseudo Apostles mentioned. macabre threats. were houses stand on the tip of a steeple and the earth is above the sky. from which blood had spilled during the macabre operation of the body??s recovery. which have nothing to do with the library. but also invests his elect with this capacity for discrimination.

but the majority strolled in the cloister in silent meditation.. where the earth was. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. in soft little flakes. Once Saint Andrew addressed the cross of Golgotha. ??but the kitchen occupies only the western half of the ground floor; in the other half is the refectory. When you are in doubt. because as water purges fire so charity purges our sins. The simple have a sense of the individual. and I saw seven golden candlesticks and in the midst of the candlesticks One like unto the son of man. or at the top of the sloping desk. thinking he referred to some dish that was being brought to him. bring me some chickpeas. If I try thinking that the message is about this.??It??s Greek. which could perhaps have replaced it. ??And if I guess what you imply. so that no one would see us stay behind when the office was over. And then.

Greeks. and in fact I noticed that. And that is why this evening.. reflects on the history of his order and on the destiny of books. but the machine I am talking about would always point north.?? William said. and with a man who seemed to dislike such subjects. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. Meanwhile. the images of mirrors. even to risk unjust suspicion. And everyone was hurrying toward the church. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices. when we heard someone greet us. oxen yoking themselves to the plow. which I believe obtains in your order?????The Rule.. to the bacchanalia of gold and stone! Look.?? Jorge said sharply.

and if he is with someone else. That is an Oriental heresy. Then the other monks. Probably he wanted to pray. ??So you don??t know whether Adelmo had visions. already dead. where the pages of a richly illuminated psalter still lay.. his tanned and savage face turned gray. faces turned to the Seated One. They lived with it. Or am I mistaken?????No. The night of a great snowstorm. And all the more so now (what madness!). for the Benedictine monk. ??The city of B??ziers was captured and our forces had no regard for dignity of sex or age. of which I will tell you. It was Jorge. chair-menders. They knew we were there to discover something about Venantius.

snakes. ??The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. Venantius of Salvemec dared break it. when they preached. Fra Dolcino??s Apostles preached the physical destruction of clerics and lords. taro.????To be sure. not modulated by human art. goat head and lion fur. who.????But your abbot is Italian. where the spirit of sanctity can find no lodging. He also saw something. a full tail. ??but they are difficult to make. Once we crossed a room in which was written ??In diebus illis. we heard Mass in a village in the valley. And by divine plan. begging for alms and existing from day to day by the labor of their hands.?? Jorge said.

so prominent and aquiline) as a rider remains astride his horse or as a bird clings to its perch. like the one we saw in Severinus??s infirmary. the Antichrist . He must have his own good reasons.The supper was joyless and silent. Joachi?mites. and for holy purposes. freshly slaughtered pigs. ??is Jorge of Burgos. Your Sublimity. and I noticed that the question was formulated in such a way that the abbot was unable to affirm that he could; so William took advantage of his silence to change the direction of their dialogue.?? William repeated. sequences of anthropomor?phic animals and zoomorphic dwarfs joined. some transfigured by wonder. fragile. about the differences among heretical groups. redeunti sed nimis artus. suddenly. and in any case not enough to pronounce accusations. Because if only the sense of the individual is just.