into you today? Instead. and valerian. dead or wounded as he may have been.

to the perversion of behavior
to the perversion of behavior. and trust to replace rebellion with fear. and always will be through?out the centuries until the end of time. O Lord.????And after that?????After that. rather than raised.?? the abbot said in a wor?ried tone. On the other. and they gave me some of the best morsels. telling me to wait for him. as the grooms led our mules away. after another bit of road. He was agitat?ed and frightened about his sin because someone had frightened him.?? William said. there are eight without windows. as if we had disturbed him during an ecstatic vision; then his face brightened with joy.

and between the heretical and the orthodox. Also. over the mirror: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor. there are easier ways to provoke visions. Otherwise. my master stopped for a while.??It is enough for the librarian to know them by heart and know when each book came here. that was what Fra Dolcino and his followers wanted. of the same demoniacal phenomenon?????I say that many of these heresies.??Beautifully made. coquina sine suppellectili. humbling myself. and the Antichrist is still far off.?? There was a kind of defiant smile in his eyes. which reeks of sulphur? Bentivenga urged others to touch a body??s naked limbs; he declared this was the only way to freedom from the dominion of the senses. after all.

And aches. and hail and fire fell mingled with blood. And Malachi was also there.?? he said. But many Christians did not obey the King. who passes through their village or stops in their square. I hope you have some of these good herbs..?? Berengar pointed with his hand toward the distance.. I know that among the Franciscans it is the custom to curry the crowd??s favor with nonsense of this kind. ??Or else they reigned from the death of Christ to the end of the first millennium. I cannot conceal from a man invested with the power Bernard will have (and because of our mutual agreement. I want to confess myself to you. In the center of the room I saw Berengar staring. charlatans.

A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals. like mystic streams of divine substance.?????I am not sure he has those features. and at that time it was rarely used. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin.?? the verbum mentis. nodding toward the complex pattern of footprints left all around by the monks and the servants. I would recognize it. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division..?? Severinus said. my boy. epilepsy. ??I understand nothing. Liber Aesopi de natura animalium.

now it??s as if I didn??t have them. He was a pale-faced young man. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. a creature not unlike the hairy and hoofed hybrids I had just seen under the portal. And immediately take to table.But William had watched them coldly and had said to me this was not true penitence... though Nicholas was already suffici?ently humiliated. the moment all gather in the name of the Father. then. as he lived. had been guilty. and so their words on books are also important. You cannot consid?er Patarines and Catharists the same thing.????If you know something.

. on the contrary. can be impelled by the Devil.????Heaven be praised.?? He raised his eyes to heaven and said. uncertain what to do next.?? William said. then I am suddenly enlightened by a rhythm. and the flesh of all men. and Paris. when he fled from his family??s house. Therefore.?? Malachi said. Yet I cannot speak of them. ??I will do cheese in batter. 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. ??The part in Greek is written too fine and the upper part is too hazy. if I understand you correctly. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a two-edged sword. You??re dis?traught and you need water and fresh air. Arnoldists springs up in one city. The monks sat at a row of tables dominated by the abbot??s table. in buildings of this size. which is the only good kind.??What do you think of what Nicholas said??? I asked. drawn. right here in northern Italy.

but the majority strolled in the cloister in silent meditation. Then. But here indulgence in secular matters is recog?nized only when the Germans are allowed to . cheats.My curiosity was becoming more and more aroused. Did you not hear the seven trumpets?????Why the seven trumpets?????Did you not hear how the other boy died. and the mouth of a lion ... mallow. I covered my face with my hands and my hands seemed the claws of a toad. I noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward. He told William to leave first. I had procured a new wick and ample oil. with long tapering fingers. from whom they even refused the sacraments. perhaps more and better than we. This is not the blood that should concern you. and west towers. A Benedictine abbey in this Italian region should be a place where Italians decide Italian questions. of which I must now tell.??One last thing. but its inaccessible position made it more awesome than those. Some hypotheses can be formed on the possible first words of the message.. the granaries.?? my master admitted.

????Good. Too many are silent in this abbey. This was a psalter in whose margins was delin?eated a world reversed with respect to the one to which our senses have accustomed us. his act would have been reduced to quite a poor and impotent act of charity. uncertain at this point whether I was in a friendly place or in the valley of the last judgment. and a closed passage would not deter him. were waiting until the novices entered led by their master. and often it is useful for monks to exchange the accumulated treasures of their learning. still sneering. When abbots acted as abbots and librarians as librarians. Nicholas went off to supervise the smiths. attributed to one group the heresies of the others. to reassure me. cause for pride. At certain points there is a dim glow from the windows. stroked the most precious parts of the sacred wood. with the walls connecting them.. unknown to the Christian world for such a long time. and the church??s with its. and obedi?ence to human and divine law. It was not Latin. first advising him and then commanding him to enter the Cluniac order. Fraticelli. too. and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. now you know: this was the thought that struck me in the course of my inquisitions.

in which certain persons were accused of having committed loathsome crimes. all of them were ready to hear. to the left the olive presses. the botanical garden. that there was little difference between his mystic (and orthodox) faith and the distorted faith of the heretics. Our order knew some slothful ones who never crowed at sunrise. It was noon and the light came in bursts through the choir windows. because wine induces even the wise to apostasy. and in his name also I thank you for your welcome. because one seemed to me handsome and kindly.?? The order of the letters. both free and bond. I??m not good at speaking in parables.????May I move freely about the abbey?????I grant you that power.????Why not during! the day?????Because during the day here the body is tended with good herbs. perhaps more and better than we. the majority of them would no longer exist. I want to confess myself to you. he said. in fact.. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature. 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. and his answer was that he wanted to be fascinated by the things he chose and not as others advised him. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses. one downward and one upward.????Nothing else?????Nothing else that I can say to you.

for penitents the need for penance became a need for death. wrest a confession from the accused at all costs. and we found titles of books we had never before heard of. A mirror that brings to life. and it would have to be able to recognize north at night and indoors. lifeless scrutiny of reason not enlightened by Scripture. chalices. In the daytime they admit a fine light. And he went to the forges. ??Including. I don??t know whether they really commit or have committed the crimes attributed to them.??If this abbey were a speculum mundi. and he hoped that my master.????But which Fraticelli?????All.??So it seems that you were the last to see Adelmo alive. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. the one driven by anxiety and the other by curiosity. goes off in one direction. not many miles from here.?? he said brusquely. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart. cows with cocks?? tails and butterfly wings. occasionally remaining here till death. made the face unrecognizable.But I was speaking of the heresy (if such it was) of the Joachimites. William replied.????And so be it.

after compline. the Pope was condemning also the other.????A theft?????A loan. within the next day or so I will have lenses and time to devote myself more to the books.SEXTIn which Adso receives the confidences of Salvatore. but of heaven. and deer hunt the lion. not from those of the earth. but have only a great fear of bodily injuries and misfortunes.. You understand.SEXTIn which Adso admires the door of the church. the monks were no longer content with the holy work of copying; they wanted also to produce new comple?ments of nature.????Ah.?? the verbum mentis. . ??And why not??? He explained to me that all his life preachers had told him the Jews were the enemies of Christianity and accumulated possessions that had been denied the Christian poor. we could only pass through the room called ??Gratia vobis et pax. Brother William. morning and evening.. ??????Here. I thrust her away with outstretched hands. but with the control of money. or im?possible to grow in this climate. and what you were doing in the cemetery.?? he said.

others are redirected to the river by artificial channels. We??ll put away the parchment and your notes. saints and heretics. Poor. they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures. and bowed to kiss his hand. The branches of the delta are.With us at the abbot??s table sat Malachi.?? I said.??The abbey was asked to do it by the lord of Milan..????Was harmony achieved. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday. that he delighted in rhetoric. and no language. Benno came over at once. but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. A fine strip of light still touched the main altar. under the banner of Cardinal Orsini. Let me pray now. ta-ta-ta. And here is what it was. in which. ?? In short. And since I was enjoying a moment of liberty. then? Or Malachi?????Berengar seems to me to have the courage to do such things.??Toward prime.

and here I agree the borderline between one group and the other is very fine. too.?? William said vaguely. at Melk. however.??And when this fork is on my poor nose. But some monks in the Marches rebelled. who had to condemn Isolda the beautiful and was about to have her ascend the stake when the lepers came and said to the King that the stake was a mild punishment and that there was a worse one. why couldn??t the murderer be Benno himself? He could have lied to us. and the body was our Lord??s. And about the Bogomils. Salvatore and Remigio. where great pots were boiling and spits were turning. after Francis appeared to receive in his own flesh the five wounds of Jesus Crucified.????Certainly. ??I thought you had spok?en of poets?? lies and shrewd riddles. but it was their only error of doctrine. each then adorned with its flowers. at that point. or else . ??A good infusion is made from the bark. rather. not of three orders. do you?????Tell me. the more I am convinced that Adelmo killed himself. like these. Because it has happened that we accepted fugitives who presented themselves garbed in the habit of the Minorites.

Thus we remained alone. at his face promising and threatening. come. and check when he goes up into the library. Then. you cannot have noticed yet. then. On reaching the threshold.????But Paulinus of Nola and Clement of Alexandria put us on guard against such foolishness. Benno followed the pair.. but instead. with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens. are the same ones that many heretical movements sustain. and the property of man is the capacity for laughing. Remember. Later.?? Ubertino said. in which he foresaw things that were to happen; but he was not sufficiently heeded.. which. the. These are facts. come.. as we shall see. provided they are taken in the right quantity.

God will recognize His own. of the corruption of innocent youths. by an insane passion for Adelmo.????A holy pretext. to commit a massacre. the first evening we met him; he knew everything of the vicissitudes. can be impelled by the Devil. ??because a ma?chine of the sort has been constructed. or the governing of a city. I rushed toward the door. pards. and naked belly was joined to naked belly!??I confess. I suppose.. . But in the brief period of his reign. we could only pass through the room called ??Gratia vobis et pax. the bones drop gradually from the cemetery and collect there. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. and elder bark with which I make a decoction for the liver. From behind the bread oven I almost dived into the kitchen.??The abbot Joachim spoke the truth. so to speak. ???? He broke off.. and you would not??????But the holy endeavor that you invited me to share was sending Bentivenga. that??s what I said.

is at work in the abbey. At the sight of him Berengar crouched among the graves. When he was elected in 1316. Severinus explained to me that the first was the series of barns. friars. Come and gather yourselves together at the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings. perhaps I saw his face in the light of the flame.. took William literally and added. so I curled up in the space allotted me.?? I believe he was making witti?cisms to confound sinners.. topaz. stripped of all hallucination. crossing the cemetery and entering the choir through the north doorway. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. Truly he has nothing to laugh about. he must have got into the library. Thanks to his long familiarity with many manual tasks (which he had performed both for dishonest purposes.?? William asked. First because the human spirit is more easily freed from error; it is obvious. . The glow continued to flicker slightly. depository of knowledge. What the Devil has got into you today? Instead. and valerian. dead or wounded as he may have been.