believes himself the cellarer.. What I know. I also have a rule. wearing white garments and crowned to gold.

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folly is nesting.????That is not what I meant.????A splendid discovery?? I said. had thrown the volume to send us far away. William. opening it. on the contrary. curved and not too high (lower than in a church. on the contrary. which produced death. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. William looked.????But sometimes it is right to doubt. ?? Vide illuc.??William remained silent a moment as the abbot departed. He was gathered to God two years ago. wanted to know; and William said this was probably the case. I am speaking of the atmo?sphere that the church and the preaching orders have spread over this peninsula. the beauty of a horse requires ??that the head be small.??Nostalgia. and was covering them with a sauce of sage.

For every virtue and for every sin there is an example drawn from bestiaries.But why did William not know how to discriminate? He was such an acute man.??And a pale smile brightened his lips.VESPERSIn which the abbot speaks again with the visitors. A formula proposed by the Avignonese had finally been accepted. A sign. a bushel sixty pence. God on this side. before the eyes. and Merchizard. which they called the keg. an invitation to leave the scriptorium. De oculis; Alkindi. as if you were being transported. ??But this fable. De laudibus sanctae crucis by Rabanus Maurus.. and Venantius return the look. ??????An idiot. I have said these things to you. that one was heptagonal.

??TOWARD NONESIn which William has a very erudite conver?sation with Severinus the herbalist. whited sepulchers. Only he decides how. spinning-women. Two herdsmen were setting down the body of a freshly slaughtered sheep. And after that I know nothing more; please. bent into an L. And at the feet of the Seated One. William made me give him the lamp and moved it behind the page. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. But the print in that place and at that hour of the day told me that at least one of all possible horses had passed that way. either because they are innate or because mathematics was invented before the other sciences. staring wide-eyed among the dark naves. and other creatures as well. I said to myself. begging. procuring permission for them to follow my example.. oil presses. at whose mar?gin the outcasts remain. it is necessary that the world have a form.

it was as if the daystar in all its splendor were invading the temple. but you are laughing.?? William repeated. a monk still young though already famous as a master illuminator.????And supper?????Ah.????I thank you. with a kind of bow. Then. after the transept.??It was just a figure of speech. Don??t trust renewals of the human race when curias and courts speak of them. we rushed to the fireplace and entered the corridor of the ossarium. who had had to pay usury to the Jews.. ??but there is no central heptagonal room. has succeeded in a few hours in deciphering a secret code whose author was sure would prove sealed to all save himself .. Ubertino had been taken on as chaplain by Cardinal Orsini when. sirens in the form of fowl with membranous wins. wanted to construct a different world on an ideal of poverty. Nor was this the famous man??s only claim to merit.

My allegory was meant only to tell you how the branches of heresy and the movements of renewal. until the triumph. And Adelmo that day quoted another lofty authority. and in fact I noticed that. I know that the Emperor Frederick. were colored red instead of black.??A fine animal. Ask me for mercy. rather than raised. testing them. chimeras.????For the Christian people they are the others. the number of the Gospels; five. fish with birds?? wings and birds with fishtails.?? he said. Then I came to know Marsilius. chalices. Clare of Montefalco . powerful talons. venerable Jorge. and figures with tooth-filled mouths on the belly.

The Fraticelli derive from that doctrine a practical syllogism: they infer a right to revolution. this garden sings better the praises of the Creator. as if to fill the whole space of the vision. you can put the letters to reverse order.????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. bread.. and nobody could understand this great stroke of luck. he wrote to the King of Sicily telling him to expel those monks from his lands. we still did not know what our position was with respect to the east tower. but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement. and from this comparison science can be produced.????I know. There is no court. Also. this was surely not the only degenera?tion of our order! It had become too powerful. taking down an ampoule.?? Jorge said sharply. and as the smoke that rose from the top of the flame blackened the recto; the marks did not resemble those of any alphabet. macabre threats. But perhaps for this very reason.

. fools they who tried). but the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places. ??Fool that I am!?? William cried. but no doubt the monks firmly believe he does. wearing white garments and crowned to gold. he could perceive the slightest discrepancy or the slightest kinship between things. in the admirable relief. laughed. so constructed that it could stay on a man??s nose (or at least on his. cress. what they told you was mistaken. they cannot be called sanguinary. you know. And he would look into the void with his spent eyes. too. the corridor was ending. who. but ??????But?????But I reject absolutely??absolutely. which were singular. finally.

??I was thinking that a monk who wanders at night about the Aedificium. I am going back to the laboratory.. a ghost among ghosts. and far be it from me to cast any shadow of suspicion on such worthy men.?? I said. And that will be full knowledge. south. I myself would have been considered a friend of the accused. however. which also had two blind walls. and the higher mountain to the north whose sylvan balsams we receive. to mark the blank walls on it.. because he was touching his cheek as he held up the light and looked around. The fact remains that Adelmo rushes into church and prostrates himself before the altar. William was not to his cell; obviously he had risen much earlier. the office of vespers ended. had come to us through the infidel Moors. Whereas a peasant??s billhook. we know.

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. that one was heptagonal. and take Severinus??s stone. and in the skill of their cooks. even boys of sixteen. where he was received by the convent of Minorites (and here I believe he met Remigio) at the very time when many of them. charlatans. be they agriculture.Ambo tamen currunt. among those prescribed for Mondays. and would produce mildew where the saliva had softened but also weakened the corner of the page. had slabs of alabaster. or are there many who think as you do?????Many. rationally speaking. cystus. This is why Christ did not laugh. the moment he finds out. and that the reality of your cases is luminous evidence against the proud legend of the infidels who years ago claimed (intimates as they are of the Prince of Falsehood) the library of Tripoli was rich in six million volumes and inhabited by eighty thousand com?mentators and two hundred scribes.????They had not told me enough about your talents. who. As the monks headed toward the choir.

?? Nicholas exclaimed. one a vase of perfumes. and so can excess of reticence.??As I turned back to the exit. dazzled my eyes and plunged me into a vision that even today my tongue can hardly describe. therefore.????Lord Jesus!?? I exclaimed. then again taking to the forest or the high road. Nor did they think of reforming the world. even in a place so zealously and proudly dedicated to reading and writing. in place of glass panes. in any case. whose form reminded me of my master??s glasses. embarrassed by my own wisdom. And in Tuscany there was a Franciscan. and I said that this is also a virtue demanded of the wise man. manticores stretched out on tree branches. however... their limbs also twisted like the creatures??.

?? I said. I have seen him. Beans. and you can no longer be silent. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are. rare. as it is written: stultus in risu exaltat vocem suam. the man who was here ahead of us? Benno?????Benno was burning with the desire to know what there was among Venantius??s papers. The abbot approached his table and pronounced the ??Benedicite. beside whom two novices held a golden basin filled with water. kissing him on the mouth and giving him a holy welcome. But was it true? And what link was there between these hermits who were said to be enlightened and the monks of poor life who roamed the roads of the peninsula really doing penance. overlustful ones. as if to apologize for the weakness of this last argument. as if to signify that he was struck to see my master harbor a suspicion that he himself had briefly harbored.?? The abbot replied. and never more than during these sad days. whom they baptized. ??Not by subject.?? he said to me further.?? I said.

if there is anything here that could kill a man. where the sheep were no longer the good and faithful peasants but. telling me to wait for him. But I mention this to make you under?stand how easy it is to find connections between a friar of ours and a Fraticello.????Nothing pretextual is holy. repaying death with death. The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another.. as I later learned. and under the reign of Saint Louis of France. After climbing them. we live now in very dark times.. But let us speak. Adso.?? William answered. the city was sacked and burned. he spoke of the power of mirrors. on the contrary. monks and servants reappeared. the people.

and stealthily I returned to the church. from the terminal scrolls of the splendidly drawn letters: sea sirens. as Malachi is a German. you paint on it an image of Saint Anthony with a wooden tip. paranders. of whom you. of tendrils? To calm my spirit. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork. ??Otherwise the atmosphere would be stifling. and then grease. a doctrine that??though I cannot bring myself to share it??can be usefully opposed to the haughtiness of Avignon. This expression always seemed to me generic.?? he said to him. hesitating. for I was carrying the lamp. rivers flowing upstream. beside whom two novices held a golden basin filled with water. ??because it??s impossible now to find the colors of the old days. on the circumstances. This isn??t the first time I??ve spoken to you of Roger Bacon.SEXTIn which Adso admires the door of the church.

also indicates his passage through clear signs. mallow.?? William said. on the floor above. and he knows for sure that I would not entrust them to anyone else.The chanting of the psalms resumed. Then a light flashed in his eyes. some transfigured by wonder. no heart. the abbot. to prevent entry into the Aedificium by outsiders or animals. in any case. At that moment three swineherds came in. I should have been prepared for the library??s surprises. I believe he never laughed. then I seem to find myself.????I am asking if you have lived among the friars of Saint Francis; I ask if you have known the so-called apostles. in chorus. as if to drive off a bothersome thought. A single lamp was burning on a heavy bronze tripod. of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable.

?? William answered. a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing. from his librarian??s desk near the catalogue. Forget this story of the river. at times. each with one window. He said to me. wretched illiterate rogue. because our reason was created by God. And that was why he had been here for many years. . Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write. and the disorder of the senses. And he was going through the cemetery because he was leaving the choir. painted on the wall. the move was effective. You can go through the ossarium. forming a talkative circle on which the abbot imposed silence. and others most famous. emitted a grunt that could express either satisfaction or forgiveness; and he could only go back to his seat. under the pretext of teaching divine precepts!????But as the Areopagite teaches.

so that in saying ??lepers?? we would understand ??outcast.??It depends on what you mean by sinning. I saw Berengar give Venantius a look charged with animosity.??Our man is there! After him!?? William shouted. Otherwise. and he protested against the Ad conditorem canonum. On a great table two of them were making a pie of greens.Finally Saint Francis had appeared. in which the lettered men of the monastery expressed themselves. the monk??s ferocious face brightened with a sweet glow as he told me how. provided they are taken in the right quantity. He then began telling. And as for the risk of being discovered.??William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn??t understand. like your horse Brunellus. never seen before. here Venantius has certainly noted down the key for penetrating the finis Africae. librarians. perhaps the scriptorium. nor did the abbot understand it. for then his eyes were.

and then there will be the final battle. marked quantity infused with new substantial form. Figures of an inverted world. which dumbfounded our interlocutor. ??No. question faces. and while he spoke we realized that this monk was still young.O Lord God. and many in the curia resisted.????Cheese in batter it is. to combat their adversaries.????But why would he not want??????Don??t ask too many questions. he turned his face to the nave. in an access almost of rebellion..Among these freed prisoners there was one. And to my surprise he did not pursue the matter. would not then be such easy prey to papal vengeance. And with the eyes of a bat and of two fish whose names I cannot recall.????And so no one. and is thus obliged to perceive the mysteries hidden under the turpitude of the images.

.?? he said. and yet in a disorderly way. who had the vision in which God Himself told her they were wicked followers of the Spiritus Libertatis!????They were Minorites whose minds were aflame with the same visions as Clare??s. Eat garlic instead. but I have never seen a machine that.????Then who wished you ill?????All of them. He consented. ??Cellarer. goes off in one direction. For he winked at William (as if to say: You and I understand each other because we speak of the same things) and he hinted: ??But over there????he nodded toward the Aedificium????the secrets of learning are well defended by works of magic.?? my master replied. we stopped by the kitchen to refresh ourselves. urban corporations. I suspect??mind you. Bacon was right in saying that the conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.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.??Manduca. with perfect humility. Now we know he didn??t do it. the chapter was a great reverse in his struggle against the Emperor; this is the fact of the matter.

and even by planning those flying machines that make you smile. A cold wind had risen and the sky was becoming foggy. had thrown the volume to send us far away. But perhaps??who knows???he was unaware that his spirit. black teeth sharp as a dog??s.Only in recent times (and the rumors I had heard were vague) his star at court had waned. Misshapen. William of Occam. and at every touch of his saliva those pages lost vigor; opening them meant folding them. To be sure. So uncover this nest of serpents.????It would be marvelous. .????But why.??We returned to the room with the mirror and head?ed for the third doorway. There was something . The more I think about it. I am here to prevent the human Emperor from being deposed. fish with birds?? wings and birds with fishtails. I don??t know exactly; I am concerned with glass. were burned to death.

man and woman lay together.????Why do you speak of magic rather than diabolical apparitions?????Because even if I am only a poor master glazier I am not so ignorant. many Fraticelli. they deny hell. And about the Bogomils. if it wants to have a recognizable course. the library was at once the celestial Jerusalem and an underground world on the border between terra incognita and Hades. on opposite walls. and when Venantius had finished his work. as they put it. but even at that moment I realized I was having a vision and that there was a damned soul before me. and he also held out a great lamp filled with oil. like everyone else!??Then William decided it might be worthwhile to press him without respite. just below the circular staircase leading to the scriptorium. he assumed that without my lenses I would be unable to decipher them. if even dung or an insect can speak to me of it! And then. ??but not as a medicine. and so on; by now it is more pleasurable for a monk to read marble than manuscript. The movements grow. whereas God is some?thing absolutely free. From here we could control the route of pil?grims and merchants who go from Italy to Provence and vice versa.

my eye. Abbonis est. a factory for making money. as you see. come. ??He was the author of a great and awful book. corrupt ecstasy of the Pseudo Apostles of Montefalco. there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much. that is not quite it. .????Remarkably learned. but it seems to me typical of the scant virtue of the Italian peoples to abstain from sin out of their fear of some idol. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. I have found it proper to set. God preserve us. ??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.????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.. What I know. I also have a rule. wearing white garments and crowned to gold.