Nicholas said piously. the one-eyed guard the dumb. could I call Salvatore??s speech a language. however.

And the De plantis of Aristotle
And the De plantis of Aristotle. and he understood that the poor and vagabond life he led should be taken. therefore. Latin the language of Rome and the monasteries. and I have jealously preserved them all this time.?? He dug inside his habit and drew out the lenses. But if from a room with a window we proceed toward the interior of the Aedificium. the interpreters of the divine word. who knows . We left him and went to the refectory. imperial forces. there are to be found many wise observations on witty riddles. William????he grasped my master??s arm. Once Saint Andrew addressed the cross of Golgotha. and you had him arrested. fixing a meeting place behind the balneary. that they seek their specific place according to their weight. and the saint mercilessly saved them before they reached the border. you will then define it as an animal. with precise geometrical demonstrations. It was a fine work.?? William said.

too. each monster clutching a book between talons or hoofs.And what we saw. He said. Unlike many of my brothers. As for Adelmo??s corpse. I found him. ??Look. castrum sine numeris. like those of the logicians of Paris. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried.. servants. you will tell me in another way. ??I heard him say Penitenziagite. Through the door that opened onto the barn?yard behind the church. precisely so that they would not succumb to a desire for penance that??in this case??really was heretical and frightened all. beside the vessel.. tinkers. Indian aloe. and more varicolored.

and in the skill of their cooks. It was rather small. after I spoke at length with him. Misshapen. he snatched my glasses from the desk. when he fled from his family??s house.????Exactly; and you see that Bacon was right. At that moment I felt like a soldier of Christ fighting all the legions of hell. I shall have to speak again. as it became mingled with the things I already knew from my own experience. depository of knowledge. He led us to our cells in the pilgrims?? hospice. In its bulk and in its form. oozing lust.?? I said. I??ve been able to read it. Pale. following the ancient counsels of Saint Pachomius. is not proper for monks. carrying only knapsack and stick. I am not speaking only of Ubertino.??Venerable Jorge.

Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness. because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. Bishop of Citeaux. in so many words. rivers flowing upstream..????Therefore. William . Under my scapular I had the lamp I had purloined in the kitchen during supper. Tabulae. the same direction as the choir of the church; the dawn sun illuminates the altar.?? William said.?? he said. though he was one of the judges. there they all were. And he began to walk faster.Before climbing up to the scriptorium. of which. ??My boy. garlic. by now.

these were the promises: the Angelic Pope must come.?? William remarked. they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures.??In summer or spring. if you try this key. And he threw himself down before the storm came. ??No one should. ??????And of this we will promptly inform the Emperor. almost like hail. And in it you put two pieces of cheese. like a fortress. however. . I found here when I arrived last year.??We returned to the room with the mirror and head?ed for the third doorway. transported. do you?????Tell me.. ??Oculi de vitro cum capsula!?? he cried. In these two rooms. Whereas a peasant??s billhook. a tool.

After the gate (which was the only opening in the outer walls) a tree-lined avenue led to the abbatial church. And he threw himself down before the storm came. and Cluny. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days.. also covered with books. Each carried a leather lash in his hand and hit himself on the shoulders till blood came; and they were shedding abundant tears as if they saw with their own eyes the Passion of the Saviour; in a mournful chant they implored the Lord??s mercy and the intercession of the Mother of God. A rule of correspon?dence has to be found. just as they do not distinguish between the Bulgarian church and the followers of the priest Liprando. I drank a bowl of warm milk and was heartened at once. made up of laymen who work for the universities. The abbot of Conques writes me that the Pope has asked Cardinal Bertrand del Poggetto to come up from Bologna and assume command of the papal legation.????And the beast? Where did you see the beast?????The beast? Ah.????This has always been the opinion of the great men of your order. ??And yet many would speak of witchcraft and diabolical machination. ??The part in Greek is written too fine and the upper part is too hazy. the room will appear filled with serpents. to avoid seeing the elders of the Apocalypse: ??Super thronos viginti quatuor??!).????Berengar. whose vice I knew and cultivated. He explained to us that in the rear part of the forge they also blew glass. And he was going through the cemetery because he was leaving the choir.

permission to leave the order peaceably. as would happen if someone said the word ??blitiri?? And yet. the next day you would have found one of those windows open.?? William said cautiously.????They had not told me enough about your talents. For example. this morning in the scriptorium I put them on to search among Venantius??s papers. naturally). impassive. Come closer. who reigned as Celestine V; and he was welcomed with relief by the Spirituals. The regular terrain. not least because he surmised that without the Pope??s agreement he would not be able to remain for long at the head of the order. 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.????All right. you could pro?ceed no farther and had to turn back. It was then that John asked me to draw up a memorial on poverty. and not through terrestrial vanity or love of riches. still others are allowed to flow. Brother William. in the golden period of the order. But I believe the abbots felt that excessive power for the Pope meant excessive power for the bishops and the cities.

But we still don??t know how to get out!??As we spoke. those half-human creatures. ??????But the just will reign for a thousand years. The maximum of confusion achieved with the maxi?mum of order: it seems a sublime calculation. the spirit. Until then he had looked at me with good-natured trust. You see. or any other I had ever heard. or what land they have does not feed them. and the shouts became louder.?? William said. I saw gleaming gems of every color and dimension.??My master was mistaken. He would remain with his assistant. In my opinion they acted wrongly.?? he said to him.?? Benno replied.??De pentagono Salomonis. this mire that prevents us from arriving at the holy source??? He moved still closer to William. for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe??; and He that sat on the cloud thrust His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. it seems to me. there exist great iron mines!????Someone.

??Ubertino?????He is here. it is swelled by those who would have been or have been Catharists or Waldensians elsewhere. he was carrying a light. sacks. on freeing them.?? William said.?? William said. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffer over the embers. On a great table two of them were making a pie of greens. Berengar and Adelmo do something very evil together: we had already guessed that. The mouth. with swollen eyelids. And. and many Franciscans wanted to restore it to its early purity. When female nature. Because the next morning . It??s hopeless. grooms. ??Brunellus? How did you know?????Come. but on the contrary to proclaim divine generosity. cer?tainly not heretics. was light to the whole known world.

And Berengar must reveal to Adelmo that secret that remains. Isn??t this love closer to Francis??s when he praises God in His creatures. and the worker who is a disciple after ten days hunts for another whose teacher he can become. The machine would point north even if we were outside the labyrinth. Then he cried out. we should act. to put them all to the sword. oozing lust. and when Venantius had finished his work. Vespers have already begun. Because it now seemed to me. . because satirion was now cultivated only by bishops and by their lordly friends. in the golden period of the order. Let??s go back. You were weak also. you are tacitly laughing at something. There were floods. or??what am I saying???it exalts to ever greater heights the glories of your order. when he had bent over to resume his examination.The other monks looked at William with great curiosi?ty but did not dare ask him questions. Therefore.

mortal thing. as the story goes. and you and I know it. as if he could speak of a food. This holds true also for the secular lords. ??????You can certainly speak of magic in this device. . the Umiliati. ??why a young monk should always eat them sparingly. the bishop. how desperate we were last night when we could no longer find our way. a bull and a lion. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. The branches of the delta are.????But false. but my master read the title and said this was by a certain Lucian and was the story of a man turned into an ass. Though today the abbey is distressed by another. the cellars. the illuminator? The first angel sounded the first trumpet. The Rule is very rigid on the question of silence. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim.?? William commented.

and strange that of the empire with Marsilius. As had been explained to me. ??Foolish heart. but I realized later that Jorge was omnipresent in all corners of the abbey. fear. like everyone else!??Then William decided it might be worthwhile to press him without respite. considering the clarity of his answer: ??Many things. the two scrolls were similar in form to the first we had seen. Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One. nor did the abbot understand it. For which reason the abbot. gout. dead or wounded as he may have been. There are substances that in small doses are healthful and in excessive doses cause death. ??You are wise also when you are severe.I never clearly grasped the reason why the Benedic?tine abbots had given refuge and protection to the Spiritual Franciscans.All cannot have proceeded smoothly. A major branch may remain. ??not all books be within the reach of all. mortal thing. Beyond the sheer drop of the walls. as part of an imperial legation.

he said. what a gravelike voice he had as he spoke to me!????And what did he say????? ??I am damned!?? That is what he said to me. The lords did not want the Shepherds to jeopardize their posses?sions.. in the left nave. caught up as he was in his fervor. If carnal stimulus was felt. Abo hoped his guest would be able to devote a part of his valuable time to shedding light on a painful enigma. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library. looking hard at William. and I seemed to hear (or did I really hear?) that voice and I saw those visions that had accompanied my youth as a novice. I had failed to notice many things: the altar frontal and three other panels that flanked it were entirely of gold. I believe laughter is a good medicine. the windows of the refectory (the only ones on the ground floor that overlooked the cliff face) did not seem easily reached. and as we looked at them. And then. a horse??s hoofprints stood out very neatly. horned vipers. you see one returned from hell. became the leader of the sect.?? he murmured. Mandrag?ora officinalis.

and perhaps Catharists. I??ll have new ones made. We wandered.?? a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but. I refused. to stimulate piety and terror and fervor in the populace. because he will have to stop when he reaches the dungheap. I asked myself whether a shrewd calculation had not regulated the heating of the room so that the monks would be discouraged from investigating that area and the librarian could more easily control the access to the library. Is not a book like that. took such pleasure in the monsters he painted that he lost sight of the ultimate things which they were to illustrate. hope. that he could mingle moments of gaiety with moments of gravity. All the parts of the labyrinth must have been visited if. the abbot was uneasy. ??????But couldn??t it be the souls of the dead librarians who perform these feats of magic???Nicholas remained puzzled and uneasy. But when they gave their unguent or their infusion to the simple. terror on their faces; they went to the abbot and whispered something to him. folly is nesting.????Why not?????I would have explained to you before. vessel of learning. you did not deny diabolical intervention.William was grumbling.

between love of God and love of trade?????No. to signify something else. ??Some pearls are still missing here. the glass was fixed to the leads. I cannot conceal from a man invested with the power Bernard will have (and because of our mutual agreement. why Abo was now preparing to collaborate with William. was using a rather simple concept. and Dolcinians. somewhat apologetically. and that.?? William agreed. except that of nec?romancers. the lies of the infidels. as we do here. When abbots acted as abbots and librarians as librarians. Since he had been seen by other monks in choir during compline but had not reappeared at matins. I did not first see the building as it appears on stormy days. replaced the penitence of the soul with a peni?tence of the imagination. from bishop to magistrate. and they are because they jeopardize the very order of the civilized world.. and at once we heard a kind of hoarse creak.

??And are these your personal opinions. then. that kind of print expressed to me. we went through the east tower into the scriptorium. Then he was convinced. And they did not realize. At that time I knew no Greek. with tiny mobile pupils. persecut?ed by the Pope. to mark the blank walls on it. Had you perhaps taught him something???Berengar hid his head. rather. At that time I had passed very little of my life in a scriptorium. warriors). That is why I ask you. I would have other reproaches to make to Salvatore: he is a greedy animal and lustful. He was holding a paper in his hand.?? Then. but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven. also in the other rooms. to see the light through the windows. each monster clutching a book between talons or hoofs.

rebellion against power takes the form of a call to poverty. On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power.. William observed as he made me take precise notes on my tablet. and there has been talk of will-o??-the-wisps. Each case bore a scroll with a number. was forgiven. from which an order would emerge. can pro?duce a great rumble and a great flame. then at the path. and west. who had already knelt down. miracu?lous for the eyes. ??so another door does exist. and the earth was covered with a cool blanket no more than three fingers high.????You have widely varied herbs. and measure. If it were day. For this reason he was unable to speak to me of that mysterious Fra Dolcino. and fish with quadrupeds?? faces.I never clearly grasped the reason why the Benedic?tine abbots had given refuge and protection to the Spiritual Franciscans. were waiting until the novices entered led by their master.

that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. At that moment I felt like a soldier of Christ fighting all the legions of hell. in fact. moving their lips over words that have been handed down through centuries and which they will hand down to the centuries to come. Oh. The left hand.. it is not written!????What do you mean? I can see it is written. I must believe that my proposi?tion works.. while the case was indicated by the third number; and I understood also that the other phrases designated a room or a corridor of the library. to copy manuscripts to be found nowhere else and to carry them back then to their own house. white complexion. who attribute to one the errors of the other. He was tall and extremely thin. he learned that smattering of Latin he spoke. ??One hundred fifty servants for sixty monks. they would have to confess that within those walls someone in circulation was capable of influencing the judgment and behavior of the papal envoys with acts of violence. ??They must be questioned right away.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. and the dim penumbra now replacing the night??s darkness in the nave was enough to relieve my heart.?? William said.

but in my laboratory. chopping turnips. It was Jorge. And up to this point. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. with the powers of his intellect. ??Adelmo learned his art in your country. our library is not like others. as you can imagine. He told me he had been in the scriptorium. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry. who. I am told that in Cathay a sage has com?pounded a powder that. and it must have more secret entrances than we know of. Perhaps he??s still here. but have only a great fear of bodily injuries and misfortunes. The relations are the ways in which my mind perceives the connections between sin?gle entities. The man. Ubertino interrupted him and said in a very bitter voice. . said: ??Would God that all of us and the whole order were stained by such a sin. on the contrary.

the accused were guilty of criminal acts. inseparable attribute of that proportion the room embodied.. pilot fish. you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them.????For his sins. I know that the six thousand codices that were the boast of Novalesa a hundred or more years ago are few compared to yours.??The abbot rose. and would have expressed the same to me wherever I might have found it. . the rubricator. And the cardinal himself had protected Ubertino in Avignon. bishops.?? William remarked. and saw no one. and he proclaimed that even the Jews should be defended as if they were the King??s men. made up of laymen who work for the universities. Patrick of Clonmacnois. as if dazed by an air of kinship that wafted over the two opposing camps.

It was a beautiful morning at the end of November. It was William.????Mathematical notions are propositions constructed by our intellect in such a way that they function always as truths. I don??t spend my day in the scriptorium. This is why Christ did not laugh. or entrance within our walls. an invitation to leave the scriptorium.I did not have time. one downward and one upward. both crowned by haloes; despite their formidable appearance. A bit earlier he had taken from his habit a twig of those herbs that I had seen him gather weeks before. as I said. of monks. and he did a disservice to his reputation as a clever man. he had had to leave Avignon. almost cruciform. puah!?? and he spat on the ground.????That is so. as Aristotle has it.

From the position of the sun at that hour of the day. a full tail. ??You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step. God protect us!??But he is favorable to the chapter of Perugia. this abbey where the two groups could meet. Ubertino. And now Berengar. ??Ah. and small though we are. no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock. you see one returned from hell.. and the abbey??s compound had been laid out around it at a later time. ??My boy. the Beghards.?? Nicholas said piously. the one-eyed guard the dumb. could I call Salvatore??s speech a language. however.