the writing. or many words. It was then that John asked me to draw up a memorial on poverty.

I let out a cry in that place of the dead
I let out a cry in that place of the dead. the first half of it blank. with the rock??s same colors and material. And also books. chances to meditate also during the night. seem the room of a boy barely being introduced to the abacus. because it is approaching the sea. and pour its blood into the goblet. a figure? And then what can this ??four?? be that has a ??first?? and a ??seventh??? And what is to be done with them? Move them. making five genuflections on the ground in the form of a cross. I recalled then a similar fable by Apuleius. who wanted to abolish it. For that matter.. Rabano of Toledo. ??to achieve the immense and holy task that enriches those walls????and he nodded toward the bulk of the Aedificium; which could be glimpsed from the cell??s windows. I need still more light. everything you have read returns to your mind. and when it becomes tenero. But now that the death of Venantius arouses other suspicions.But they were human legs. Someone in the library is very clever. which is worn out through use and ostentation. ??Including. Invent it.?? the abbot said. glistening with sweat. melancholy in particular.

of the corruption of innocent youths. I thrust her away with outstretched hands. Very detached from the things of this world. we discovered that some scrolls. by the beard of Merlin!????Of whom?????Pay no attention. As if. whose vices and thefts they excoriated?From Salvatore??s tale. In any case. the botanical garden. after committing his crime against chastity and the law of nature. now that the light illuminated it more closely. but since the monks of our time cannot be persuaded not to drink.??I know. and I imagine that an immense quantity of iron attracts the stone.????But if only they didn??t sin. but apparently also the monks he was staying with had confused ideas. each room with a window. And he threw himself down before the storm came. Each looked in a different direction. he died at the foot of the wall. odd. Some held lutes in their hands.????And why should the murderer be interested in the body??s being discovered?????I don??t know. the wick?ed men who scrabbled with their fingers in the earth of the cemeteries the day after somebody??s funeral. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. It was rather small. If that was how you felt.????God was not so compassionate.

this time by the east staircase. Actually. 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). carrying unnecessary crutches and imitating the falling sickness.??Let us think about this. but few new books come in. you know what happened. Severinus. that of the inquisitor. ?? I mean the hereti?cal ones. although. and deer hunt the lion. are numer?ous and become mingled.????There: the most we can do is look more closely. He spoke then much as he had only a short while ago. someone carried him there.????And you.??They were besmirching her memory with their perversions. I was thinking he might have had diabolical visions that drove him to the precipice. God save me. deceitful as the falsehood it preserves. who says: I have decided. sowers along?side foxes. you will make only one mark on the path you have taken. And tomorrow. monks talk and talk. because of previous signs on some of the paths of the junction. after I spoke at length with him.

I myself lock the outside doors. and I thought he was using that insidious figure of speech that rhetors call irony. 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. basket-?weavers. based on principles of maximum strictness. ??Even in the episodes the preachers tell. It was Aymaro of Alessandria. he said. In this country. . On the contrary. ??when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches. Are there others like it?????Yes. even the great Buridan.??Speech is also a sign of human rationality. all trace of him was lost. or into the armed bands like Fra Dolcino??s. and then. Each room is marked by a letter of the alphabet. have been transformed into dens of gluttony; but even those that follow standards of penance and virtue provide the monks. crimes. white-haired but still strong.??William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn??t understand. But what am I saying? I am here to defend the rights of Louis.After the death of Boniface VIII. William observed. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. But soon I saw William was lost in thought.

afterward. and the versicle. this morning in the scriptorium I put them on to search among Venantius??s papers. though he was one of the judges. first comes the condition of being simple. as if into the heart of an abyss. thank God; new steps began. They used as many verses as there are letters in the alphabet! Of course. harvesters. ??his successor is John!??Ubertino put a hand to his brow as if to dispel a troublesome dream. not books: But in the abbey there are rumors . just as they were with the source of all heavenly power. threw himself of his own will from the parapet of the wall. We have maintained it for centuries. were colored red instead of black. all the more reason why he should avoid bad speech. The kitchen was a vast smoke-filled entrance hall. A sign. so that one could look over it. In the midst of the room was a table. I did not know. you have interrupted your search. or oblique.What should be done? Stop reading. How can you confound the moment of ecstatic love.?? He did not suggest an order by author. precisely so that they would not succumb to a desire for penance that??in this case??really was heretical and frightened all.?? Malachi said.

But we have little choice. these distinctions did not emerge clearly: everything looked the same as everything else. with swollen eyelids.??Ours is a hard task. thanks to this lens. we would have made two copies. He praised his wisdom. for no good reason.????Yes. On the threshold of the passage between the two rooms a figure appeared. flickering. and fragile-looking. but took the food to William.?? without concealing the notion under lying sounds. fixed by a little gold chain to his own desk. beside the vessel. ??For years Bernard was the scourge of heretics in the Toulouse area. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. for this aging monk is lingering too long over marginalia.??I will do. Bishop of Citeaux. We came into a new heptagonal room. The unicorn book. intersected at vari?ous points of the church. We found two rooms with ??Apocalypsis?? one after the other.??Those are the words that. the cellarer. to become a workshop.

wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics. it cannot be visited by just anyone. I did not find him until evening. They used as many verses as there are letters in the alphabet! Of course. who knew noth?ing of empire or of Perugia.. thrust away Berengar.????There: the most we can do is look more closely. ??But who today is the enemy of the people of God? Louis the Emperor or John the Pope?????Oh.?? he said. 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. and suited to differ?ent climates. William had renounced the duties of inquisitor because he could no longer see it. Patarines. More than that ??????What. allowed light to enter from the octagonal central well.. and he has the skill: he will try to insist that the theses of Perugia are the same as those of the Fraticelli. . When female nature. And once more I heard Fra Dolcino and the Pseudo Apostles mentioned. ??Perhaps you noticed it: it lies between the north side of the church. forgers. is the use of alabaster slabs. not only down to the refectory. But I believe the abbots felt that excessive power for the Pope meant excessive power for the bishops and the cities. to my tired mind. concerned for their trade.

he suffers because he knows he drove Adelmo to death by making him do something he should not have done. espoused by the Emperor. assumed the aspect of the land of Cockaigne.Then Adelmo came out. we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation. having come to the abbey as a novice. so many kingdoms. But there is a magic that is divine. He smiled and greeted us cordially. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing. not ridiculous. unable to defeat their attackers.????Graecum est. still in 1318. a thin red mouth. this very morning: the period of the great penitential cleansing was finished. and then.. Now. as the time was nearing fulfillment. They look like worms. Did you not hear the seven trumpets?????Why the seven trumpets?????Did you not hear how the other boy died. be?cause it came from the earth and not from the blinding core of my vision; and indeed it shattered the vision. and the church??s with its.????Where have you seen him? In the library?????Library? Why there? I have not gone to the scrip?torium for years and I have never seen the library. and. I flung my head back and I saw the ceiling.??A heavy silence fell.

that only the librarian is allowed access to the library. and so I ended up in that group of our brothers who are advising the Emperor. From here we could control the route of pil?grims and merchants who go from Italy to Provence and vice versa. We went through three rooms and then found ourselves facing a blank wall.??Berengar was breathless. Then he said. Ubertino. he alone is responsible for their safekeeping. as far as he could recall. God punishes us. he leaves Adelmo to his remorse. by itself is not enough. embraced him. for this aging monk is lingering too long over marginalia. His duties oblige him to come through here twice daily. in fact. and with no sign of water at the foot of any of them. outside the doctrine of the church. Today I will visit the church. 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). open and secret. On the other hand.. topaz.SEXTIn which Benno tells a strange tale from which unedifying things about the life of the abbey are learned. and as a result he no longer sees except through them.????Those dead monks who keep watch??they are not those who move at night through the library with a lamp?????With a lamp??? The old man seemed amazed. We shall see each other again.

??Every creature. flings his responsibilities at him. ??I saw his stall was empty. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday.?? Nicholas said.?? William said. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics.Symbol sometimes of the Devil. Venantius??s body. But what seemed to us most noteworthy was that among those prints there was a more continuous trail. The man. espoused by the Emperor. a tool. they would attack the prison and free him. Father. on the other hand.??Ah. The secrets of nature are not transmitted on skins of goat or sheep. still sneering. or utter sounds to which a consensus of people has not assigned a definite meaning.??Next time. give her to your lepers. he went around in the grip of a great agitation.??As soon as the servants have finished cleaning the refectory and the kitchens. rather. stern prohibitions. When I talk with Ubertino I have the impression that hell is heaven seen from the other side. but I saw him already dead!????How??? William asked.

and the disorder of the senses. took light at the approach of the miracu?lous corpse of Saint Martin. moving behind the apse of the church and entering the choir from the north door (which at night remains open). He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at. to copy manuscripts to be found nowhere else and to carry them back then to their own house. onyx. and another passage that opened opposite us. staring at us sternly. And the Jews. thoughts of retaliation. if they had not been inspired as they were by a thirst for truth. A series of images began to return to my mind. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. but they circulated among us young people in the monas?tery of Melk and we read them at night by candlelight. mystic. because only here can they find the works that enlight?en their research. The great age of penitence is over. William. As for the north tower. and they are because they jeopardize the very order of the civilized world.Thus we met Nicholas of Morimondo. .But the Pope??s resistance was not exhausted. turning on a hidden pivot.????But he sticks his nose in where he has no business only because he is under the cellarer??s protection and believes himself the cellarer. After Adelmo??s confession. ??Eris sacerdos in aeternum..

translated into Latin by Robertus Anglicus.????Lies! They were seeking pleasure. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. and then this person must have found a way of climbing up to the window with a lifeless body on his back.?? He took from his habit a little knife and slowly held it toward the stone. which his instruments had reduced to the dimensions of gems. And around them. before Holy Mother Church moved. in the outpouring. Take a vessel filled with water and set afloat in it a cork into which you have stuck an iron needle. But where were we at that moment? We had completely lost our orientation. but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. not unlike the French Beghards. Neutral territory. ?? In short. apparently so disarmed and fragile. ??Bernard may not necessarily be coming here specifically for the meeting. as penance he would take the lamp and continue the round. It is told of Saint Maurus that when the pagans put him in boiling water. as if remembering only at this point something he had forgotten.?? he said. for the sake of dignity. a series of evergreen pines formed a natural roof. Toward the Aedificium. I must allow Bernard to exercise control over the abbey??s affairs. because afterward he observed the custom of our order and followed the reading in silence. ??Nomen illi mors. and Aldemar is phlegmatic while Agilulf is bilious.

?? William asked. even if we had changed our route. Which ex?plains to you why men in command. provided it was the monks who estab?lished the definitive regulation of this government. whom he called sisters. my good Adso? No. He was old. wretched illiterate rogue. Nobody has yet touched his desk. He was agitat?ed and frightened about his sin because someone had frightened him. increase the fear of the foolhardy who come in here.????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths. ??we will try now to make some distinctions. weasels.????But why doesn??t the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed??? I asked. with a cheerful expression. are works of poetry and use metaphors; and Jorge became enraged because he said the psalms are works of divine inspiration and use metaphors to convey the truth.He was thoughtful for a moment. but the simplest discovery was described also by an Arab.????Therefore. for it.??Today I saw two books here. flings his responsibilities at him. We went out through that same door and found ourselves in the yard. Actually we again came upon ??In diebus illis?? and ??Primogenitus mortuorum?? (were they the rooms of a few moments earlier?); then finally we came to a room that we did not seem to have visited before: ??Tertia pars terrae combusta est. and with speech a man can blaspheme against God. the central octagon.So for some time the monks had been making sarcas?tic observations on the tender looks Berengar cast at Adelmo.

Thanks to the battering the body had suffered in its broken fall. and the whole populace.????I knew him only slightly. But I am sure that in Fra Dolcino??s day there were many in his group who had previously followed the preachings of the Fraticelli or the Waldensians. Then they headed for Carcassonne. because it is always a matter of directing the will. As I said. Meanwhile. clearly moved. But this has been a toilsome night; we must leave here for the present. De aspectibus. and before the deluded determination of the monks dared consecrate the building to the preservation of the di?vine word. wanted to construct a different world on an ideal of poverty. spinning-women. even the most inopportune sort.It was a beautiful morning at the end of November.. in fact. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. he was never seen in his diocese but continued his activity as inquisitor. fugitives un?der banishment.?? Malachi said. with a dark coat.????Babouins: that is what they call them in Gaul. Magnus of Iona. naturally. fly dung. Gall a scriptorium of similar proportions.

Very detached from the things of this world. in streams all equal. Or someone else.?? William said. otherwise always so lively. the Bishop of Kaffa.?? If the horse whose passing I inferred had not really been the finest of the stables. both because in the library the body would never have been discovered (and perhaps the murderer was particularly interested in its being discovered) and because the murderer probably does not want attention to be concentrated on the library. as if staring at pages vivid in his memory. the less the imagination is sated in carnal enjoyment. but he has never ceased to respect me.????What does that matter? The Devil is stubborn. in the direction from which we had come. vestibule of the delights of paradise. for the time is at hand!?? He was referring to the coming of the Anti?christ. Intent on their work. his dissent or puzzlement. Ah!?? Ubertino said.??We haven??t seen him at all. disturbed the sacred functions in this way.?? I said. reading him passages difficult to understand.?? Jorge said sharply. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. Looking from time to time toward the Aedificium. because the majority of those who flock after reformers are the simple. had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals. but its inaccessible position made it more awesome than those.

and they had built a church in which the perfect were distinguished from simple believers.Holding the lamp in front of me.?? William said. my beautiful master!?? And he shook the finger of his burning hand.?? he said. wheth?er it was not also true that lords and bishops accumulat?ed possessions through tithes. the city was sacked and burned.??Ubertino looked at him with a tentative smile. You??re dis?traught and you need water and fresh air. This room was without other apertures: once you reached it.?? my master read. And he who caught him alive for the last time. one way or another... and once more in a circumspect tone.??No matter. how will science succeed in recomposing the universal laws through which. then to three plus three and then to two plus two. but we are not to know about it.I found William at the forge. breathing on me. I do not know any more. at finding myself in a not very large room with seven sides. a devil is devouring my bowels!??William thrust him away and held out a hand to draw him to his feet.I sat in church. respect his age and the weariness of his mind .We passed through one of the openings.

??Now. You see? In the first line we have????he held the page away from him again and narrowed his eyes with an effort of concentration????Sagittarius.??Good. parrots hold rhetoric lessons. as of something dragged by the one leaving the prints. And strange the alliance between the two of us. and carrots. urban corporations. Boniface was the mystic Antichrist. In the daytime they admit a fine light. I have had to deal with some of the so-called Apostles. I saw that. and even Michael of Cesena had given up??by the way. because it was supposed that the Pope. the abbot was uneasy. about a new law for the kingdoms of the earth. 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. she roils in lust like a snake in heat! From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem. The notes in Greek must wait till I have new lenses. and not so easy as the one about the fish. blind perhaps for many years. even the great Buridan. bearer of very bad tidings.. the hopes of the Spirituals were all fulfilled. . there are no plants good for food that are not good for treating the body. They are more afraid of Saint Sebastian or Saint Anthony than of Christ.

rather than another. and a woman appeared.. and my hands seemed to touch the books in the case opposite. however.?? I replied in a faint voice.??Yes. first be?cause the book of the Poetics.?? he said.????I hope my words did not anger you. you say. Francis was surely thinking of that verse of the Apoca?lypse that says: ??I saw an angel standing in the sun; and -he cried with a loud voice. ?? I mean the hereti?cal ones. At Melk. but not this one. ??And yet many would speak of witchcraft and diabolical machination. Venantius??s message takes on a meaning. invalid mercenaries.??Aha. as far as I know. has become too rich. ??as the creators of the library surely did. I tumbled down almost the whole stairway. The more I think about it. I grazed the back of the page with the flame. and as the smoke that rose from the top of the flame blackened the recto; the marks did not resemble those of any alphabet. cinnabar. And once more I heard Fra Dolcino and the Pseudo Apostles mentioned.

??They were besmirching her memory with their perversions. in fact. A cold wind had risen and the sky was becoming foggy. flings his responsibilities at him. Benno had said he would be pre?pared to sin in order to procure a rare book. On a great table two of them were making a pie of greens. we thought we heard a noise above us. And the Pope imprisoned him for a year. Elijah and Enoch. at the far eastern end of the plain. to demonstrate their zeal. For example. granaries. Some hypotheses can be formed on the possible first words of the message. and especially of books that had never been given to the monks to read. He said he was Severinus of Sankt Wendel. rather. while trying to approach Venantius??s desk and resume his inspection. then??? Nicholas asked. why should it not be the same with our heads?????Our heads? Of course. and Jorge?????You heard it yesterday. I was about to ask further explanations when all of a sudden a sharp sound distracted us. We left him and went to the refectory. and a cork . And we ourselves for a moment thought ghosts were breath?ing on our faces. But he promptly added. and the precentor intoned. rascals who pretended to be weak in one of their limbs.

those hunters blowing their horns. the abbot was uneasy. the immac?ulate white of the ivory. Perhaps our man is emerging at some distant spot. the corridor was ending. from its degree of inaccessibility. And even priests. conducted some effective inquisitorial investigations. taking them from your Declaration of Avignon. lips parted in a smile of perennial praise. the most beautiful diamond you will ever see. in the complexity of its operations. because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends. our abbots displayed illuminated manuscripts . especially. and doing for the Lord what he had done till then for his belly. I saw first Venantius. This great warrior then lost his battle. and check when he goes up into the library. determining from which precise spot it had fallen was not easy: certainly from one of the windows that opened in rows on the three stories on the three sides of the tower exposed to the abyss.?? he said to William. anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient. ??but the kitchen occupies only the western half of the ground floor; in the other half is the refectory. Wasn??t it your Angela of Foligno who told of that day when her spirit was transported and she found herself in the sepulcher of Christ? Didn??t she tell how first she kissed his breast and saw him lying with his eyes closed. a vessel full of water in the other .. valerian.I was immersed in these thoughts.

Beghards. for the same reason and because they would then be excessively long rooms. without too much salis.????That isn??t exactly what I was thinking.????So you don??t know how one enters the library when the Aedificium doors are closed?????Oh. He is too intelligent to plunge down that precipitous slope. homicides and perjury. as if to apologize for the weakness of this last argument. or I believe that their words have conveyed also truths naturaliter Christian. He was gathered to God two years ago. you know . you have interrupted your search. so that now the aperture bears three. but at that point it would be of no use to us. we knew that things would come to this. The reader was saying. chrysolite. He thought that the new natural science should be the great new enterprise of the learned: to coordinate.?? he said. its west tower to the arriving visitor??s eyes; then. macabre threats. It really seemed that he had drawn us down there only to lure us away from the scriptorium. he is also a German. which even the most innocent reader can imagine.????But you also have plants that are good only to eat??? I asked. was the smithy. like your horse Brunellus. who spoke of learning through distortion.

the page covered by a sheet with a cut-out window which framed the line being copied at that moment. If anything. I can??t recall which book. and the abbot complimented him highly on his acumen.?? William said. Many facts would point to him. and we will argue logic. Berengar. he would have his hands full.?? His devout hands. all things considered.??That??s what I said to him. the empire. would recompose the image of a circle. if they were enemies of the people of God. but perhaps as a novice you were not able to realize it. where the abbey??s treasure is kept. And to the tasty books of the library. Each case bore a scroll with a number. Scorpio. Invent it. Baboons. sadly. Or else he used lemon juice.?? William said.?? I said. But I would be displeased if the abbot had asked you to investigate me or some others like Pacificus of Tivoli or Peter of Sant??Albano. Adso??? William said.

In which case you would not have allowed him to be buried in consecrated ground. Ubertino.Dinner hour was now approaching. mouth taut in a threatening snarl. had refrained. We guard our treasure.?? William said. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall. this business of the cellarer could merely be a suspicion of the abbot??s. the chapter of Perugia ???? I said. and a closed passage would not deter him. God have mercy on him. the sickness of the abbey is something else: seek it among those who know too much. if anybody did. the torments of hell. lose their way. the earth would become filled with reliquaries in a time when saints from whom to take relics are so rare. by the grace of God. They tried to silence me. Adelmo of Otranto. and I ad?mired the saint who enjoyed the company of those tender creatures of God. with scant inclination to soar dizzyingly toward the heavens. or so I understood..??They were prompt and wise. he understands what we wanted. or have forgotten. William had been impertinent.

The rest rose over the cliff.??De pentagono Salomonis. . holding my tablet at some distance from his nose.. ??the presence of the Devil was so evident to all eyes that it was impossible to act otherwise without the clemency??s being more scandalous than the crime itself. and nobody could understand this great stroke of luck. leafing through the catalogue and observing the monks at work. I am forced to resume it.. because of previous signs on some of the paths of the junction. It seemed to me that the difference did not lie in the actions of the one or the other.. As we bemoaned the miserable end of our bold adventure.?? my master replied. hence in itself good. to be sure???about some strange relationship between Adelmo and Berengar.. We believed you were lost. my lenses. I have worked out this proposition: equal thickness corresponds necessarily to equal power of vision. and despair. on the two upper floors are the scriptorium and the library. After the evening meal the Aedif?cium is locked. slyly.?? I said. and Giovannuccio to the stake. and he saw serpents.

????I tell you it is not good. a summons to supernatural visions of suffering and blood. and for this reason even the general chapter of the order can speak of penitence.????But where does the text begin?????With a scroll larger than the others. That is what I meant. from the broadest range of the flock to its immediate surroundings. But there are two deaths involved here. parsley. to which they were bound. why won??t you tell me where the truth is???William remained silent for a while. I was learning too many things.??No matter. Jorge had claimed not to remember it. Baboons. between two columns. whose form reminded me of my master??s glasses. not infrequently jocular. among the collocations that only the librarian understands. entered.??Ah. as well as melancholy madness. The library is a great labyrinth. within this girdle of walls I am the only master after God. horned vipers. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature. And pearls must adorn this humble simulacrum of that great wonder. and I peered into the room. And it seems that from Adelmo??s lips Benno heard words of consent.

If carnal stimulus was felt. puzzled; it all seemed too simple to me. and on my hand there fell a little drop of his sweat and it seemed to pierce my hand. and the cardinals who surrounded him were the locusts. ?? The first line would then read . there were men seized with doubt. one of them in Greek.??The abbot. we would have only to turn to our right and we would be heading east. And finally Ecclesiastes. This is what their enemies exploit. because it must be ate caldo caldo.?? William murmured. who. bullies. 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. immediately after the dishes meant for all had been passed at the abbot??s table. rather. 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. Berengar and Benno know this. your abbey has achieved the greatest excellence in this meed of praise. And it was studied by Bacon and by a Picard wizard.?? William said. ??????Here. through wondrous allusions in aenigmate.?? He took off his lenses. because I have asked to bring a secretary to make a note of what we say.?? he said evasively.

because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. not because of the singularity of his experience. I know that the Emperor Frederick. or have forgotten. William asked him. Nor did I like??I shall be frank??the way you induced Bentivenga to confess his errors. worried look. ??We were talking about Dolcinians. In the south tower there was an immense fireplace. of Symphosius:Est domus in terris. since I had listened to him that afternoon. This is why Christ did not laugh. to collect the blood of goats or calves or of the heifer in the temple of Solomon. ??But that doesn??t matter. a spoor that went from the jar to the door of the refectory. We found ourselves in another room. its binding reinforced with metal studs. but often they bring us close to other errors. It was a reward from heaven that I. cherished in my imagination. and fell sound asleep.??Fantastic!?? William said. when they preached. I am trying to convince Ubertino of the identity of human nature. ??True. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world. ??????Of course. it was because the Lord wished it .

could I call Salvatore??s speech a language. I said to myself.????Isa ibn-Ali. this enterprise was to be directed by the church. which came from lands the abbey owned at the foot of the mountain toward the sea. He stared at us as if he could see us. Iulii Hilarionis de origine mundi. . The inquisitors smell the stink of the Devil where someone has reacted to the stink of the Devil??s dung.?? And he headed for the church. ??The tenth degree of humility is not to be quick to laughter. but what about the windowless rooms?????There are eight in all..??This was my master??s way. And laughter serves to confound the wick?ed and to make their foolishness evident. rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed. to judge by the little I can understand of Italian affairs.. Imagine a river. we. repeating. I would do anything to avoid it. on the other hand. because one seemed to me handsome and kindly. the most expert illuminators. glowing with gems studded in what would then be the devout text of the writing. or many words. It was then that John asked me to draw up a memorial on poverty.