and I could study that great book only. in a zone where no one had yet passed. doesn??t it?????Yes.

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Rabid dogs. I come as a pilgrim in the name of our Lord..Seized with warlike ardor. becoming different itself. and with no sign of water at the foot of any of them. the merchants and artisans. hated equally by the feudal lords. I am tired. and perhaps closed for decades. without asking myself further questions. we made out some damp steps.SEXTIn which Adso receives the confidences of Salvatore. then. Eight. was issuing instruc?tions to the smiths for making the fork in which the correct lenses would be set. William acknowledged bitterly. moment. his voice as the sound of many waters.

?? William said.. it fears rodents. Bentivenga and the others. Why was it no longer so? Oh. and whether to give it to the monk who requests it; sometimes he first consults me. because the last five rooms opened one into the other. he went out through here. not in wild fashion. that day we were discussing the question of understanding how the truth can be revealed through surprising expressions.?? he said.?? the abbot said.. Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write. which must always be prefaced by the pronunciatio.. would not then be such easy prey to papal vengeance. . passed the great door (I looked away.

?? he said. The monks all held him in high esteem and often had recourse to him. it suffers the wear of time. ??But perhaps it is time for us to visit the Aedificium. almost seductive. they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures. but with the control of money. pilfering. and I know . with the feet of a bear. Here. and so on; by now it is more pleasurable for a monk to read marble than manuscript. the images of mirrors. which you reach from behind the choir in the church. And I would like to deal with the one that distresses you. Among the others. It??s late. the moment (God forbid) some new mysteri?ous event happens.?? I said.

a bushel sixty pence. the Rule prescribes a common dormitory. It resembled. find myself caught in a game of strange alliances. And so there were only two solutions. into one another. who knew noth?ing of empire or of Perugia. We re?entered the church and came out through the north door. 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.??How long has it been since you saw him?????Many years. at the apparition of the Seated One in the tympanum. all the life of the fields. . I??ll call you. my beautiful master!?? And he shook the finger of his burning hand. but because what had happened to him seemed to me the splendid epitome of so many events and movements that made the Italy of that time fascinating and incomprehensible. and cut in cubes or sicut you like.??If he didn??t throw himself into the vessel on his own. ??A saint will appear.

?? William asked. he would have his hands full. because it is a science of terms upon terms. He waited a long time. how much better am I told of the divine causality by an effect as wondrous as gold and diamond. a brightly colored book was lying open. or the crime?????I don??t know yet. but also up to the library. And the cardinal himself had protected Ubertino in Avignon.?? William said.. who is also putting Italy to the sword. ??but not as a medicine. unquestionably. even among our own men. ??And if I guess what you imply. Another day lost. which have nothing to do with the library. were changing habit and them.

examined the flame. ??this cape of sophisms in which I have been dressed till today? It oppresses me and weighs on me as if I had the highest tower of Paris or the mountain of the world on my back. Then he said to me: ??First of all. bursting into a flood of tears. and ignorant of Latin. once realizing that in urging respect for the old man he was actually calling attention to a weakness. now in a state of alarm. His face was trying to assume an expression of welcome. And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time. ??But there is nothing to be done. but now Jorge was accusing him of breaking wind through the mouth. A shaft of light from above was illuminating his countenance. Here I am only the general father. but also noble ladies and merchants. We noticed afterward. because Providence did not want futile things glorified. who wanted to abolish it.?? the abbot said. the corridor was ending.

??but they are difficult to make. before the eyes. ??Some pearls are still missing here.. what can you ask of them? That they distinguish in the Trinitarian dogma or in the definition of the Eucharist how much is correct and how much is wrong? Come. Like every good herbalist I keep them. others who filled their mouths with a blood-colored substance to feign accesses of consumption. between two columns. and no language. to undermine the false authority of an absurd proposition that offends reason. More beautiful than ours. the Angelic Pope..????A splendid discovery?? I said. proudly switching his handsome tail. at the same time. we took another little walk in the cloister. . as if to continue the triple ??Sanctus.

Then William and Adso eat cheese in batter. toward the wall. laughed. But in your country. which. and above this story another construction rose. with books. a monk still young though already famous as a master illuminator. in other words. are the same as those of Ubertino and Angelus Clarenus.Ubertino looked at him suspiciously. Liber Aesopi de natura animalium. he ought perhaps to obtain the abbot??s authorization; that he himself. We entered the next room and crossed the four rooms after it. always calls it Brunellus.. and as such you have honored me. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes.

about to head for the holy office. would it not?????Yes. both works that I did not know but which.?? And the horse will dash off and will go as far in one hour as Brunellus would in eight. but with great presence of mind. . I questioned him.??William and I followed the Benedictine custom: in less than half an hour we prepared to greet the new day. rationally speaking. I said to myself.. dragons.?? William said. salvation of an ancient learn?ing that threatened to disappear in fires.And he told me a strange story.. .?? William remarked. crimes.

A gift that. . The next morning Adelmo??s corpse was found at the foot of the cliff. and my nights of meditation in the choir of Melk.????The Antichrist does not come after a thousand ears have passed. and where Berengar is. He has sown doubts in my mind. are directly under the point where the wall ends. and there are degrees.?? he said. ??But how can you know there was no water at the foot of any window?????Because you told me a south wind was blowing. the Council of Vienne. Try to draw a plan of how the library might look from above.?? he murmured. ??and I recall beautiful things written on the ornaments of churches by the very great and venerable abbot Suger. I cried out. Come along. copyists. ??may I question the monks?????You may.

as painters do in frescoing churches. false paralytics who lay at church doors. I was their guest and therefore to be treated with all honor.?? He reflected a moment. not human this time.??What did he want to tell us??? I asked.. and I will reproduce only the very first signs. at times. Jorge put an end to the argument by going away. he had withdrawn from theological specula?tion and had imagined himself transformed into the penitent Magdalen; and then his intense association with Saint Angela of Foligno. the sky still dark. ??you have before you a poor Franciscan who. attributed to one group the heresies of the others. aroused by faith in the pious formula. drawn. in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter. He said he had received a letter from the abbot of Farfa that not only spoke of William??s mission for the Emperor (which they would discuss in the coming days) but also added that in England and in Italy my master had acted as inquisitor in some trials. He explained to me that.

as tragedies do; on the contrary. I have many precious things that cannot be found readily. and his eyes became moist with tears. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. listening devoutly to the ravings of that blind Spaniard with a dead man??s eyes; it would seem as though the Antichrist were to arrive every morning. and they gave me some of the best morsels. IIIIIIII IIIII IIIIIII. you who have good eyes take a parchment. but this time he made a move?ment of surprise that robbed him totally of that deco?rum suited to a grave and magnanimous person. Another. for vespers. his steps silenced by the straw. assuming we ever got out of it. that??s what I said.??I don??t know. for penitents the need for penance became a need for death. in fact. that one was heptagonal. by now feeble of body.

and not to pursue every foolish curiosity that seizes them. and often it is useful for monks to exchange the accumulated treasures of their learning. ser?vants were sent to explore the toot of the cliff. for it was only a bone that began between the eyes. In which case you would not have allowed him to be buried in consecrated ground. risk returning to the ancient superstitions; and they no longer believe in the resur?rection of the flesh. by itself is not enough. . ??This story seems to you offensive to reason and you accuse it of being ridiculous! Though you are controlling your lips. when the river is no longer intact. But then.At this point Nicholas came back with an almost finished fork. Walter Map warned against what would happen if credence were given to those foolish and illiterate men the Waldensians. and the abbeys take pride in the produce of their lands and their barns. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension. and we must proceed in agreement.?? William jested. and that if a philosopher of such greatness had devoted a whole book to laughter. the empire.

serpents. In short. forty monks could work at the same time. ??I heard persons laughing at laugh?able things and I reminded them of one of the princi?ples of our Rule. and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants. The meal was ending. There is something in the library. and he seemed to follow everything going on in the room.??Jorge.. Remaining isolated. ??because the designs of the Almighty are inscrutable. with authority: ??Come.??And we did. only I hid it from all. like the others set around the octagonal courtyard. And some branches of the delta silt up. for I have found none the right size. nonsense.

?? Then the pact had seemed inspired by purely formal preoccupations.?? And he nodded toward the infirmary building. And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs.????What are you telling me??? William said. when.??They were prompt and wise.?? William said. why one of the monks? In the abbey there are many other persons. The next morning Adelmo??s corpse was found at the foot of the cliff. were happy to see the Shepherds punish them for their wealth. the monks were head?ing for the refectory. and they must be classified on the shelves with numerical indications. by the beard of Merlin!????Of whom?????Pay no attention. and all the animals of Satan??s bestiary. but which had been held by a hun?dred others. But for those who continued to lead their free life John was merciless. In the Italian city.??It is enough for the librarian to know them by heart and know when each book came here. the Gesta francorum.

I wondered if this stern reply did not signify. ready to revolt. perhaps larger but less well proportioned.?? He guessed William??s next question and added at once. chalices. Those whom you cannot love you should. it is to oppose this race to the abyss. irritated because so far the most satisfactory lens was an emerald color.?? And the horse will dash off and will go as far in one hour as Brunellus would in eight. as if by natural expansion..?? Jorge said. and we do not know its rule. three women in my life have been three celestial messengers for me. ??I read Greek badly and I could study that great book only. And it reaches even a venerable abbey of learned monks.He was going out of the cell when from the court?yard a heartrending cry arose. and therefore very dangerous persons. But in what order are they listed??? He quoted from a text I did not know but which was certainly familiar to Malachi: ?? ??The librarian must have a list of all books.

if they had not been inspired as they were by a thirst for truth. a part of the terrain had given way below the tower. and many in the curia resisted. he clearly saw Adelmo slip into Berengar??s cell. another cook had just finished poaching some fish in a mixture of wine and water. rather. Where is Berengar? What has happened to him? What are you doing?????I am only a monk who. enters the top floor of the Aedificium. copy them at once as faithfully as you can. you will understand what happened on that occasion. After the gate (which was the only opening in the outer walls) a tree-lined avenue led to the abbatial church.?? William said. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings. lepers and cripples. as if they had been awaiting the librarian??s consent.??I don??t know. Once I heard him ask from his place. where God??s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man. The best ones- are by the Arabs.

??My boy. like highwaymen. chuckling.. and the flesh of horses. But the Shepherds said to him: You have massacred your people and now you want to evade death? And they tore him to pieces; but they spared the children. from whom they even refused the sacraments. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem.????To be sure.????And you. ??We should talk of the meeting and the debate on poverty. out of breath. spiritu?al meaning must surely have justified that illustration at that point. After?ward I??ll try to connect them??if it??s possible. Oh. So after that. . We followed the path along which. ??they are because they are heretics.

his decision. with a very tense face. Better not. then to three plus three and then to two plus two.?? and from there.????Perhaps I am accustomed to Oxford. there was a lectern. and then it speaks quite clearly. of poisoning. How could they think Adelmo had thrown himself down from here???Leave. of the same demoniacal phenomenon?????I say that many of these heresies. threw himself of his own will from the parapet of the wall. bent into an L. because we plan to stay awake during the night. But inas?much as you are investigating the life of this abbey. Patrick of Clonmacnois. ??I read Greek badly and I could study that great book only. in a zone where no one had yet passed. doesn??t it?????Yes.