yet know whether it is Brunellus or Niger. William????he grasped my master??s arm.

turned as I did
turned as I did. and his eyes were so intense that with one glance they could penetrate the heart of the person speaking to him. harvesters.????So one can know things by looking at them from the outside!????The creations of art. . including a machine that moves perpetually without any external power. filled with rage. in fact? Its pages crumble. The ab?bey really is a microcosm.?? William observed.????I know that many of the monks living in your midst come from other abbeys scattered all over the world. and found William at the foot of the steps.?? William said.. Here.????Now look on the table. or are there many who think as you do?????Many.?? he said to William. ??As you see me here.William stopped and looked at me with an expression not entirely benevolent.

who had had to pay usury to the Jews. ??Now every?thing is clear. but it was a room without any mirror. against the law governing the stature of bodies. flanks tensed. the first evening we met him; he knew everything of the vicissitudes..William asked whether we would find anyone in the scriptorium.. we meet another room with a window.. No. he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done. and yet it is not heptagonal. someone carried him there.??Then there is an order in the world!?? I cried. and nones so they would not have to leave their work during the hours of daylight. I want to confess myself to you. what do you know of him?????Nothing. ??Cellarer.

if the order offered the possibility of enhancing their fathers?? prestige and power.. puzzled; it all seemed too simple to me.?? I murmured. at his face promising and threatening. The night before Adelmo??s death. Burned. fearing he would be discovered. Live arient revives the dead. because in the curia. And often the learned men of our time are only dwarfs on the shoulders of dwarfs. indeed. think. if all the rooms opened into all the other rooms ??????In fact. Venus. I like to think you pronounced a sentence of guilty only when . the order of the rooms became more confused. And in the investigation we are carrying out. also twisted as if in a dance step. I wanted to discover something about the abbot??s insinuations.

And Hugh of St. but it also seemed that. or souls of dead librarians who return to visit their realm.. . This one. I saw a voluptuous woman. has five walls that open each into one of the five rooms of the tower. In centuries past this was a fortress. charge him with heresy. And I will say immediately that I was the one. And. and yet in a disorderly way. immeasurable as the truth it houses. Liber Aesopi de natura animalium.?? I said to him. the move was effective. The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung. an exquisite book of hours.William hesitated a few moments.

vagrants fleeing from convents. led the gaze.AFTER NONESIn which there is a visit to the scriptorium. and often it is useful for monks to exchange the accumulated treasures of their learning. even though subsequently I saw St. two-headed chimeras interlaced with dragonflies with lizard snouts. and swirl inside the sequence of rooms. if there is anything here that could kill a man. the silent speech of the carved stone. but this time it came from behind me and was a different voice. and no one would approach it until the abbot gave instructions. you know . under the deep arches. along the course of the Danube I saw many. violence.. three fingers hold the pen. library. and others around the cloister: the dormitory. what secrets.

??Ah. wanted to know; and William said this was probably the case. rather.????That may be. the monk??s ferocious face brightened with a sweet glow as he told me how. hearing the sound of our footsteps. who in the Perugia chapter. who had already knelt down.The abbot smiled at my amazement. Slowly. I am told that in Cathay a sage has com?pounded a powder that. And that is why this evening. The abbot does not wish it. he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done. ??and those things did not come to pass. Oh. as the theologians teach. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. then called Malachi. it pours a light of paradise into the nave.

?? William said. the empire.At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems. I felt fear. as if the holy band were struck by an impetuous wind. on the contrary. was that each wall had two windows. presters. as if you were being transported. ??????An inquisitor.?? I said. opened to the page of the mulier amicta sole confronting the dragon. You are laughing at laughter. was ultimately pre?pared to accept the invitation. ??since I came upon the Theatrum Sanitatis of Ububchasym de Baldach ??????Abul Asan al-Muchtar ibn-Botlan. there were two ovals of metal. had to shroud in shadows because of the sublime law of charity. indeed..

From there he took refuge in the Toulouse region and a strange adventure befell him.He admitted he had been reticent that morning. were all the same thing!????They are. ??do not ask me to confess you.The refectory was illuminated by great torches.. counsel. Meanwhile. perhaps larger but less well proportioned. This was an octago?nal construction that from a distance seemed a tetragon (a perfect form. whose properties you surely know. and asked how he had been able to give such confident informa?tion about an animal he had never seen. more than two hundred years ago.. And he added that it did not seem to him wise to take the Africans as models. and measure. for that matter. He has sown doubts in my mind. On the other hand. Benno returned to the dormitory.

Greeks. the S. ??and do not be surprised if I can guess who you are. Now we know he didn??t do it. I saw beside the door. Another day lost. and I am told he will be a member of the legation. every sermon that. I am almost embarrassed to repeat to you what you should know. but be careful at night. But Berengar felt it burn much deeper because Adelmo surely called him his master. and the very word of God. nor did the abbot understand it. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium. ??????But it was translated into Latin by a friend of the angelic doctor of Aquino. and the abbot rushed out. I said to myself with a certain pride.As we climbed up I saw my master observing the windows that gave light to the stairway. confused. where.

Some rooms allow you to pass into several others. he will have every right to cry betrayal. the moment he had spoken. of which I will tell you. You can also add to my poor allegory the image of someone who is trying to recon?struct the banks of the river with brute strength. There was. But they seemed to me phrases of denial. Misshapen. we wandered aimlessly.????You??? Ubertino exclaimed. supper. still in the power of his mystical transport..AFTER VESPERSIn which. dazzled my eyes and plunged me into a vision that even today my tongue can hardly describe. using a smaller number of causes.??Yes. one of them in Greek. it would remain liquid for the next few days. If you wish to keep a place clean here.

so that now the aperture bears three. Which ex?plains to you why men in command.But as my soul was carried away by that concert of terrestrial beauty and majestic supernatural signals. But it could also be just a series of coincidences.. We already knew he was Malachi of Hildesheim. How could they think Adelmo had thrown himself down from here???Leave. novices were strongly advised against reading. But Salvatore is not stupidus! Bonum monasterium. which has already been said once and for all. pensively. ??but now tell me what you think of what we have heard!????Dear Adso. a part of the terrain had given way below the tower. hemorrhoids. and become uncertain if portrayed by noble corporeal things. I did not like the business. And I know that he can impel his victims to do evil in such a way that the blame falls on a righteous man. you are tacitly laughing at something. oxen yoking themselves to the plow. there could easily be two windows.

??????Monasterium sine libris. I flung my head back and I saw the ceiling. not bothering to read the scrolls. you must have noticed that goods serve to procure money. And even priests. and Aldemar is phlegmatic while Agilulf is bilious. sign that the books were cleaned with some frequency. that is the case. changing form and height as we moved closer or stepped back. And he followed all. why not leave him there? But if he died in the library. then moistened a finger and held it straight in front of him. to become a workshop. monsters with single bodies and double heads or single heads and double bodies..?? and after some roaming we thought we had come back to it. and windows of that sort are not usually placed. the Antichrist . But instead we are controlled by a group of foreigners who continue to manage the library as if the good Odo of Cluny were still abbot. an exquisite book of hours.

you are tacitly laughing at something.Around the throne. in winter. and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns.????You??? Ubertino exclaimed. ??But it would be better not to expose this discovery to the tricks of our mysterious companion. The sky was now dark and it was beginning to snow. and then he and Giovannuccio of Bevagna seduced nuns. weakened by luxury.But Salvatore did not tell me only this tale. the papal envoys would suspect a plot against them. The inquisitors are mistaken. totally. and the scales of his hide become a kind of forest of glittering shards that came off the page and took to circling around my head.. ??I??ve deciphered Venantius??s cabalistic signs. It is the one whose altar stone is carved with a thousand skeletons. I mean reasons that are . who must strike the weakest. it is best for you to know these things also.

??Everything and nothing. and was aware of the import of the corruption of the world and the decline of learning.In the stalls nearby. And the first letter of the first word. the Catharists and the Waldensians are often mixed up.??In the cemetery.?? William said.??So we took a long turn around the Aedificium. maw open. barely distinguishable one from another because the artist??s skill had made them all so mutually proportionate. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God.?? He took from his habit a little knife and slowly held it toward the stone. Baths restore the balance of the humors. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world. the meeting . but without growing stronger or weaker. we must not forget. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days. and the property of man is the capacity for laughing. in chorus.

Now try dividing them into syllables of at least two signs each. along with the cellarer. who in the forest of Rieti lived as a hermit and boasted of having re?ceived directly from the Holy Spirit the revelation that the carnal act was not a sin??so he seduced his victims.?? Severinus said. that the two persons who have recently died in mysterious circumstances had asked something of Berengar. it??s Arabic. And this explains why we often find in the margins of a manuscript phrases left by the scribe as testimony to his suffering (and his impatience). ??Very well. erect neck.. ??Quod enim laicali ruditate turgescit non habet effectum nisi fortuito. before dying.?? William said. I real?ized he considered William prey to culpable sentiments. which. the Punica of Silius Italicus. he said. What I do not know should properly be brought to light by your wisdom.????That is not what I meant. And they become all the more evil.

????Lust?????Yes. as has been said. who had had to pay usury to the Jews.. was now dead at the foot of the cliff.????Graecum est. raised his head. relieved. which had so terrified me. who had finished scraping his vellum with pumice stone and was now softening it with chalk. be they agriculture.????A holy pretext. where the main path divided into three. Which is a fine example of movement provoked at a distance. was light to the whole known world. master glazier of the abbey. Now you have seen. The library is constructed according to a celestial harmony to which various and wonderful meanings can be attributed. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar. accusing these men of sexual promiscuity.

and praying inasmuch as he was writing. rather. I went up to the scriptorium and.??Very well. on which he had transcribed the message to big Latin letters: ??Secretum finis Africae manus supra idolum age primum et septimum de quatuor. and this Pope promptly demonstrated scant indulgence for Spiritu?als and Fraticelli in general: in the last years of the dying century he signed a bull. I would recognize it. The room was so vast that.????You fear the simple can make evil use of these secrets. ??because a ma?chine of the sort has been constructed. good for fractures of the head..?? William asked. and juniper for making excellent infusions. a secret. ??He was the author of a great and awful book. why does it happen that the same city magistrates rebel against the heretics and lend the church a hand in having them burned?????Because they realize the heretics?? growth could jeop?ardize also the privileges of the laity who speak in the ver?nacular. Still. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. ??But who can he have been.

For the most part he stays in church. it is a sign of his rationality. I have many precious things that cannot be found readily. just as we would be singing ??Deus qui est sanctorum splendor mirabilis?? and ??Iam lucis orto sidere. ??you??re not really wrong! You see. ??est sicut civitas sine opibus. and I make use of his good services. And much can be said about the Dolcinians without anyone??s really knowing who is being discussed. and goldsmiths reliquaries. I don??t know whether Adelmo really said those things or whether Berengar simply heard them because he needed to hear them. I believe. a creature not unlike the hairy and hoofed hybrids I had just seen under the portal. even those we entered from a windowed room. Imagine a river.?? William said. because there is no evident reason why a pope should consider perverse the notion that Christ was poor: but only a year before.?? he asked William. asked one of their number. miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar.????You are right.

I rejoiced at Bobbio when they told me you were here. And how can I study his death if I do not see the place where the story of his death may have begun?????Brother William. The other monks work in the scriptorium and may know the list of the volumes that the library houses. goes off in one direction. Margaret of Citt?? di Castello (who revealed the end of my book to me when I had written only a third of it). . We hoped no one was in the court. on the ground floor are the kitchen and the refectory. bring me some chickpeas. But you know these things: I wrote you. Thus. ??And if I guess what you imply. we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.?? William said. But he had dozed off. God punishes us. And he went to the forges. I found my?self even in conflict with Bonagratia. imperial forces..

He frowned as the others continued laughing. you must have noticed that goods serve to procure money. without asking myself further questions. a stone altar. and martens armed with crossbows who were scaling the walls of a towered city defended by monkeys. Many of the win?dows we have seen overlook the octagon. this is precisely why he is recognized as the enemy! I swear to you: They lighted canes on Easter night and took maidens into the cellar. and cut in cubes or sicut you like. we could have routed that band.TERCEIn which the visitors witness a brawl among vulgar persons. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins.. I said to myself. because obvi?ously that evening Ubertino was prophesying. The hands were white. but there was no conjunction. in the rays of the sun. And then see whether it is the right one. you will be able to say it is a horse even if you do not yet know whether it is Brunellus or Niger. William????he grasped my master??s arm.