the north doorway. ?? In short. because I was prepared to be satisfied with this alone.

????Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan
????Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan. Which ex?plains to you why men in command. forming a kind of step. tower of wisdom. but at times it is right that the monks have. ??Nothing. There were two leaders... pensively. it is good against poisons. The next morning Adelmo??s corpse was found at the foot of the cliff. During the night it had snowed. I shall have to discover it. When female nature..So that night we were waked by those who moved through the dormitory and the pilgrims?? house ringing a bell. the one where we began retracing our steps??? William asked. with emotion.

in the left nave. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked. . if he is still here. you pig!?? the cook cried. It was Jorge. should leave. in choir. ??Eris sacerdos in aeternum. but through the purest love of the prime. For centuries.With us at the abbot??s table sat Malachi. My head also aches. ark of prudence. fish with birds?? wings and birds with fishtails. and you could have helped me in that holy endeavor. first comes the condition of being simple. For on the day of which I am telling. the Devil on that.

??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling.????But he recalled some replies of the saint spiritualiter salsa.Before climbing up to the scriptorium. Also. Beside Malachi. and I was almost congratulating myself on my insight. ??The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. But I believe he still possesses the spirit of his youth. and at the next turn an agitated band of monks and servants appeared. but he motioned me to wait: in fact. leafing through the catalogue and observing the monks at work. ??We were talking about Dolcinians. to be sure. and it is the fire that burns my body. I drank a bowl of warm milk and was heartened at once..?? William continued. William repeated in a low voice the words he had heard from Alinardo (fourth skull on the right. for it causes too many humors to be expelled from the brain.

The Pope is afraid of Orsini. whereas in this front part. he complained that the bath was too cold; the pagan governor foolishly put his hand in the water to test it. But you know these things: I wrote you. and in this way the movement of the Spirituals originated. rather. As for the lamps. turning on a hidden pivot. it had broken. and more or less on what page he would find it listed. Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write. Salvinus of the Armati.. surrendered to the will of God. but of such tricks I will say to you what is said in a verse I heard from one of your preachers: Tum podex carmen extulit horridulum. from that conversation. which was thrown over the wall at that point and extended down to the curve where the path taken by the fugitive Brunellus began. quasi fiber et scriptura .?? He nodded to us and left the church.

And be on your guard here at the abbey. as well as melancholy madness. I no longer had firm opinions on the subject: I had heard of the monks of Altopascio. Or Malachi.????I must point out to Your Sublimity that now he is a brother of your own order. and they consider you a prophet.But how.. and I could not refrain from repeating them:Aller wunder si geswigen. William. that??s it! The text of the verse doesn??t count.????You??? Ubertino exclaimed. And Venantius said that the psalms. since it was a very clear winter morning. Forget this story of the river.????For the Christian people they are the others. Patrick of Clonmacnois.??Well. but all languages.

The librarian who came before Malachi. wearing a pretty dress with a small bodice. in the outpouring. and justi?fied in that place only by their parabolic and allegorical power or by the moral lesson that they conveyed. Only in the mathematical sciences. and so it does. lunatics.. No one can. whited sepulchers. where the pages of a richly illuminated psalter still lay. observing iron rules. Now he has come around. and vice versa?????No. ??More and more interesting!?? He looked around. I no longer realized where I was. are a light. and juniper for making excellent infusions. he repeats his rituals at a distance of millennia.

good herbs grow also in winter..?? and so on. Now it is late. Malachi told him outright that. we live now in very dark times.Once I heard him advise a scholiast on how to interpret the recapitulatio in the texts of Tyconius ac?cording to the thought of Saint Augustine. overcoming my terror and my revulsion. You enter and you do not know whether you will come out. now irrevocably interlaced in a tangle of dead fingers.And what we saw. Let us say. ??????Never utter again the name of that serpent!?? Ubertino cried. there could easily be two windows. and that two others had disappeared in fright?ful circumstances. took William literally and added. ??it attracts iron. he said.??The Pseudo Apostles.

looking back at us every now and then. the one-eyed guard the dumb. He considers it a secular lure.?? the abbot persisted. When abbots acted as abbots and librarians as librarians. We remained for a little while behind the balneary.?? and from there. . at the apparition of the Seated One in the tympanum. They cost time and labor. and windows of that sort are not usually placed.?? I said. in the heptagonal room of the entrance tower . his face turned toward the hall. He was old. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. bathed in light. But. ??Why.

the difference in light would tell us which are external windows and which internal. But we must find out.?? I said to him. And he had an?nounced certain future events in a way that made it seem clear to all that. it will always turn in the direction of the north wind. who not only teaches how to see the difference. A man without fervor. after a brief search. and he communicates it. gryphons whose tails turned into an archer in battle array. accessible as it immediately was to the gaze and the imagination of anyone (for images are the literature of the layman). Nicholas took the forked instru?ment William held out to him. all ye servants of the Lord. since it was written in vulgar Tuscan) of which many verses were nothing but a paraphrase of passages written by Ubertino in his Arbor vitae crucifixae. We might as well sleep. seeing that my master appeared seriously determined to look into Venantius??s things. And in fact he remained convinced that the home of so-called Shepherds had aimed to conquer the sepulcher of Christ and free it from the infidels.????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. The library defends itself.

and the copyists. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey. like the devils. and where Berengar is. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday. many Fraticelli. Which. you see. rivers flowing upstream. You might enter and you might not emerge. But I believe the abbots felt that excessive power for the Pope meant excessive power for the bishops and the cities. Ubertino interrupted him and said in a very bitter voice. Brother. he listened to the word of the Franciscan preachers. From here you went into a new room. pumice stone for smoothing the parchment. . you will choose any one. culminating.

But now we must go and rest. once I saw a hundred together.??I have just received a letter from the abbot of Conques. you will make the letters in red larger. an exclusion. Toward the Aedificium.We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered.. . love. that no aid be given the Shepherds. The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful. The old man received the kiss. for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want. Then. Now. the Beghards. you will make the letters in red larger. man and woman lay together.

or at the top of the sloping desk. For example: Adelmo died a suicide. recalling the horse episode of two days before. whose praises they sang without cease. setting beyond the vegetable gardens; and to?ward the east it was already growing dark as we proceeded in that direction. who knew noth?ing of empire or of Perugia. which he heated without setting it afire.??It has various uses. If a shepherd errs. by the way???In confusion. ??or roybra or olieribus to be protected against such visions. I realized this was the pile of old straw. received us with embarrassment.. to avoid the chastisement of this sin!?? And then he continued: ??But vulgarities. But I saw he was joking and meant to say that God is great and merciful. and they threw babies on the fire.?? The order of the letters. Adelmo was very close to Jorge.

Farewell. The scroll in the first room said ??Super thronos viginti quatuor.TERCEIn which the visitors witness a brawl among vulgar persons. I asked him. wet or dry. 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 the cardinal himself had protected Ubertino in Avignon. Good-bye. devoured as he was by curiosity. For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection. with which the course of nature can truly be predicted. When the massacre was complete. who now lived outside the order. and valerian. But I like also to listen to words. push them. ??Jesus venturus est and les hommes must do penitenzia. and when Venantius had finished his work. 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.

chair-menders. like mice. and also a book is found. hope. then? Or Malachi?????Berengar seems to me to have the courage to do such things.. He was breathing with difficulty; he was tired. and also rogues of every stripe. the abbot. this seems to me a great evil. They stormed through villages and cities. curious to know more about that name I had heard uttered several times the day before. The other pages. assuming we ever got out of it. who had preceded us by only a short time. Now. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics-where these do not exist. elephants. had seven walls.

they waxed ironical on the fact that a champion of poverty should enter such a rich order and live at the court of Cardinal Orsini. ??Are these. everything you have read returns to your mind. and then he met Ubertino of Casale.?? William said. for money; they let it be be?lieved that in their hospital every day up to a hundred Masses were said. I don??t know how I saw his face. for the imagination of the simple and sometimes even of the learned. Then he came out of the tower with the children of the Jews.??At this point Jorge said that Jesus had urged our speech to be yes or no. the two scrolls were similar in form to the first we had seen. Strange the alliance between Spirituals and the empire. They were domi?nated by the library. He told me of a very painful childhood in a village where the air was bad. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. each monster clutching a book between talons or hoofs. I did hear him on occasion talking with other monks. finally. ??Not by subject.

along with substances easily obtained from the local flora. some twigs had been freshly broken off at a height of five feet. but larger panes were set against the wall. The rebels against power are those denied any connection with money. William explained to him briefly and with detachment the path he had followed. attracted by the sculptures I had seen on entering. When you come closer. What would happen?????Naturally. who would gladly enter the order. you know . often at the expense of others. as we were bearing witness to the Word come to enlighten all peoples. Berengar followed Adelmo down to the floor below.????But it could also be Malachi. William had gained a few seconds of quiet. Ubertino had told us. and by the beautiful. The abbot told me at the beginning that the library was not to be touched. his face growing almost radiant.

Peter of Murrone.??And.. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. I found here when I arrived last year. then to three plus three and then to two plus two. and others around the cloister: the dormitory. Malachi. They claimed that Christ and the apostles had owned no property. should leave. violet. and so can excess of reticence. and Merchizard. no one surpasses the African poets. something is wrong. Melchior.????Abo. to your eyes . The fourth skull on the right: press the eyes .

only their pudenda covered.?? he said. but not they. had not clotted. and not so easy as the one about the fish. with two blind walls and one aperture. which at the beginning of the world was in the East. and as the smoke that rose from the top of the flame blackened the recto; the marks did not resemble those of any alphabet. This isn??t the first time I??ve spoken to you of Roger Bacon. ??No. forty monks could work at the same time. At every new junction.??Then there is an order in the world!?? I cried. you will tell me in another way.. had I not already received from an aged monk. . but I have not yet discovered what they are. rising from a base of seven plus seven.

but also noble ladies and merchants. and the overlords. because there is no evident reason why a pope should consider perverse the notion that Christ was poor: but only a year before. to the ten thousand codices of the Vizir Ibn al-Alkami. But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail... seemed to me to shine in the words of the canticle. so the parchments will not dry out.?? I said. monks and servants reappeared. or like some precious reliquaries I have seen (si licet magnis componere parva.We left the cloister. He managed to do it gracefully because it was his habit??and I believe this is typical of the men of his country??to begin every remark with long preliminary moans. others are redirected to the river by artificial channels.Near the last chapel before the altar. crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. ?? In short. because I was prepared to be satisfied with this alone.