1 00:00:23,201 --> 00:00:26,743 Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life... 2 00:00:26,909 --> 00:00:28,909 my hair now white... 3 00:00:29,076 --> 00:00:32,493 I prepare to leave, on this parchment, my testimony... 4 00:00:32,659 --> 00:00:37,493 as to the wondrous and terrible events that I witnessed in my youth... 5 00:00:37,659 --> 00:00:43,493 towards the end of the year of our Lord, 1327. 6 00:00:43,659 --> 00:00:46,618 May God grant me the wisdom and grace... 7 00:00:46,784 --> 00:00:50,534 to be the faithful chronicler of the happenings that took place... 8 00:00:50,701 --> 00:00:54,784 in a remote abbey in the dark north of Italy. 9 00:00:54,951 --> 00:00:59,576 An abbey whose name it seems even now... 10 00:00:59,743 --> 00:01:03,493 pious and prudent to omit. 11 00:03:35,701 --> 00:03:40,159 May my hand not tremble now that I start to relive the past... 12 00:03:40,326 --> 00:03:44,409 and revive the feelings of uneasiness that oppressed my heart... 13 00:03:44,576 --> 00:03:47,409 as we entered the battlements. 14 00:04:23,284 --> 00:04:26,242 Should we tell him? 15 00:04:27,659 --> 00:04:30,034 No. 16 00:04:30,201 --> 00:04:32,659 He will look in the wrong places. 17 00:04:32,826 --> 00:04:34,701 But... 18 00:04:34,867 --> 00:04:39,742 what if he should learn it of his own accord? 19 00:04:39,909 --> 00:04:43,951 You overestimate his talents, my lord abbot. 20 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:48,951 There is only one authority capable of investigating such matters. 21 00:04:50,326 --> 00:04:53,742 The Holy Inquisition. 22 00:04:59,326 --> 00:05:03,367 What is your opinion, Venerable Jorge? 23 00:05:05,117 --> 00:05:07,076 Dear brethren... 24 00:05:07,242 --> 00:05:11,576 I leave such worldly matters to younger men. 25 00:05:26,784 --> 00:05:28,784 Adso. 26 00:05:28,951 --> 00:05:31,701 - Yes, master? - In order to command nature... 27 00:05:31,867 --> 00:05:35,159 one must first learn to obey it. 28 00:05:35,701 --> 00:05:38,867 Return to the forecourts, get the edificium on your left... 29 00:05:39,034 --> 00:05:42,867 enter the quadrangle on your right, you'll find the place you need. 30 00:05:43,034 --> 00:05:45,159 Behind the third arch. 31 00:05:53,992 --> 00:05:56,784 But you told me you'd never been to this abbey. 32 00:05:56,951 --> 00:06:01,201 When we arrived, I saw a brother making for the spot in some haste. 33 00:06:01,367 --> 00:06:04,451 I noticed, however, that he emerged more slowly... 34 00:06:04,617 --> 00:06:07,742 with an air of contentment. 35 00:06:09,784 --> 00:06:12,701 Thank you, master. 36 00:06:52,701 --> 00:06:56,784 On behalf of the Benedictine order, I am honored to welcome you... 37 00:06:56,951 --> 00:07:01,576 and your Franciscan brothers to our abbey. 38 00:07:09,242 --> 00:07:13,076 The other delegates, they have arrived? 39 00:07:13,242 --> 00:07:16,951 Ubertino de Casale has been here for some weeks. 40 00:07:17,117 --> 00:07:20,034 The others are due tomorrow. 41 00:07:23,159 --> 00:07:27,701 You must be very tired after your long journey. 42 00:07:27,867 --> 00:07:29,576 No. 43 00:07:29,742 --> 00:07:31,826 Not particularly. 44 00:07:33,034 --> 00:07:36,576 I trust you're not in need of anything? 45 00:07:36,742 --> 00:07:39,201 No. Thank you. 46 00:07:39,367 --> 00:07:41,659 Well... 47 00:07:41,826 --> 00:07:45,992 Well, then I bid you peace. 48 00:07:50,701 --> 00:07:55,034 I'm sorry to see one of your brethren has recently been gathered unto God. 49 00:08:03,742 --> 00:08:05,951 Yes, a terrible loss. 50 00:08:06,159 --> 00:08:09,326 Brother Adelmo was one of our finest illuminators. 51 00:08:09,492 --> 00:08:11,992 - Not Adelmo of Otranto. - You knew him? 52 00:08:12,159 --> 00:08:15,242 No, but I knew and admired his work. 53 00:08:15,409 --> 00:08:18,492 His humor and comic images... 54 00:08:18,659 --> 00:08:21,075 were almost infamous. 55 00:08:21,242 --> 00:08:23,992 - But he was said to be a young man. - Oh, yes. 56 00:08:24,159 --> 00:08:26,450 Yes, very young indeed. 57 00:08:27,117 --> 00:08:30,701 - An accident, no doubt? - Yes. 58 00:08:30,867 --> 00:08:33,784 Yes, as you say, an accident. 59 00:08:35,575 --> 00:08:37,742 Well, that is, I... 60 00:08:44,117 --> 00:08:46,992 Brother William... 61 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:49,659 May I speak with you candidly? 62 00:08:49,825 --> 00:08:53,242 You seem most anxious to do so. 63 00:08:53,409 --> 00:08:55,825 When I heard you were coming to our abbey... 64 00:08:55,992 --> 00:08:59,034 I thought it was an answer to my prayers. 65 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,492 Here, I said, is a man who has knowledge, both of the human spirit... 66 00:09:03,659 --> 00:09:06,492 and of the wiles of the evil one. 67 00:09:07,034 --> 00:09:13,617 The fact is, Adelmo's death has caused much spiritual unease among my flock. 68 00:09:16,450 --> 00:09:18,617 This is my novice, Adso... 69 00:09:18,784 --> 00:09:23,575 the youngest son of the Baron of Melk. 70 00:09:23,784 --> 00:09:26,950 Please do continue. 71 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:30,825 We found the body after a hailstorm... 72 00:09:30,992 --> 00:09:35,617 horribly mutilated, dashed against a rock at the foot of the tower... 73 00:09:35,784 --> 00:09:39,075 under a window, which was... 74 00:09:39,284 --> 00:09:40,950 How shall I say this? 75 00:09:41,367 --> 00:09:43,950 - Which was... - Which was found closed. 76 00:09:44,450 --> 00:09:47,909 - Somebody told you. - Had it been found open... 77 00:09:48,075 --> 00:09:51,450 you would have concluded that he'd fallen. 78 00:09:51,825 --> 00:09:53,909 Brother William... 79 00:09:54,075 --> 00:09:57,284 the window cannot be opened... 80 00:09:57,450 --> 00:09:59,534 nor was the glass shattered... 81 00:09:59,909 --> 00:10:02,742 nor is there any access to the roof above. 82 00:10:02,909 --> 00:10:05,075 Oh, I see. 83 00:10:05,242 --> 00:10:08,034 And because you can offer no natural explanation... 84 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,409 your monks suspect the presence of a supernatural force within these walls. 85 00:10:13,575 --> 00:10:15,659 That's why I need the counsel... 86 00:10:15,825 --> 00:10:19,450 of an acute man such as you, Brother William. 87 00:10:19,617 --> 00:10:22,659 Acute in uncovering... 88 00:10:22,825 --> 00:10:25,659 and prudent, if necessary... 89 00:10:25,825 --> 00:10:28,742 in covering up... 90 00:10:28,909 --> 00:10:31,950 before the papal delegates arrive. 91 00:10:32,117 --> 00:10:35,700 Surely you know, my lord, I no longer deal in such matters. 92 00:10:35,867 --> 00:10:41,075 I am indeed reluctant to burden you with my dilemma... 93 00:10:42,242 --> 00:10:45,825 but unless I can put the minds of my flock at rest... 94 00:10:45,992 --> 00:10:51,200 I will have no alternative but to summon the help of the Inquisition. 95 00:11:15,242 --> 00:11:17,784 Adso! 96 00:11:26,450 --> 00:11:29,492 That is Ubertino de Casale... 97 00:11:29,659 --> 00:11:33,950 one of the great spiritual leaders of our order. 98 00:11:34,284 --> 00:11:36,492 Come. 99 00:11:48,825 --> 00:11:51,742 Many revere him as a living saint... 100 00:11:51,909 --> 00:11:54,575 but others would have him burned as a heretic. 101 00:11:54,742 --> 00:11:58,950 His book on the poverty of the clergy isn't favored reading in papal palaces. 102 00:11:59,117 --> 00:12:01,409 So now he lives in hiding like an outlaw. 103 00:12:04,534 --> 00:12:07,825 Fellow Franciscans... 104 00:12:07,992 --> 00:12:13,284 you must leave this place at once. 105 00:12:13,450 --> 00:12:16,867 The devil is roaming this abbey. 106 00:12:17,034 --> 00:12:18,784 Ubertino... 107 00:12:18,950 --> 00:12:21,492 It's William. 108 00:12:21,659 --> 00:12:24,742 William of Baskerville. 109 00:12:24,909 --> 00:12:27,492 William...? 110 00:12:27,659 --> 00:12:30,534 No. 111 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:33,450 No. 112 00:12:33,617 --> 00:12:37,242 William is dead. 113 00:12:45,909 --> 00:12:49,450 William, my son... 114 00:12:49,617 --> 00:12:51,492 forgive me. 115 00:12:51,950 --> 00:12:56,534 We had lost trace of you for so long. 116 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:59,659 I tried very hard to be forgotten. 117 00:12:59,992 --> 00:13:02,200 When we heard of your troubles... 118 00:13:02,367 --> 00:13:05,825 I prayed to our virgin for a miracle. 119 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,450 Then your prayers met with a favorable response. 120 00:13:10,617 --> 00:13:13,325 This is my young novice, Adso of Melk. 121 00:13:13,534 --> 00:13:18,034 His father has entrusted me with his education and welfare. 122 00:13:21,575 --> 00:13:23,325 You must get him out of here! 123 00:13:23,492 --> 00:13:28,367 Have you not heard, the devil is hurling beautiful boys out of windows? 124 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,450 There was something... 125 00:13:35,617 --> 00:13:37,909 feminine... 126 00:13:38,075 --> 00:13:42,117 something diabolical... 127 00:13:42,284 --> 00:13:45,659 about the young one who died. 128 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:50,200 He had the eyes of a girl... 129 00:13:50,367 --> 00:13:55,033 seeking intercourse with the devil. 130 00:13:56,450 --> 00:13:58,533 Beware of this place. 131 00:13:59,117 --> 00:14:03,158 The beast is still among us. 132 00:14:03,325 --> 00:14:08,325 I can sense him now, here... 133 00:14:08,992 --> 00:14:12,658 within these very walls. 134 00:14:12,825 --> 00:14:15,742 I'm afraid, William... 135 00:14:15,908 --> 00:14:18,617 for you, for me... 136 00:14:18,783 --> 00:14:21,992 for the outcome of this debate. 137 00:14:22,158 --> 00:14:25,325 Oh, my son. 138 00:14:25,492 --> 00:14:29,575 The times we live in. 139 00:14:31,825 --> 00:14:35,492 But let us not frighten... 140 00:14:35,658 --> 00:14:39,283 our young friend here. 141 00:14:42,950 --> 00:14:46,367 She's beautiful, is she not? 142 00:14:48,658 --> 00:14:51,325 When the female... 143 00:14:51,492 --> 00:14:55,033 by nature, so perverse... 144 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,200 becomes sublime by holiness... 145 00:14:59,367 --> 00:15:04,367 then she can be the noblest vehicle of grace. 146 00:15:24,325 --> 00:15:27,575 - I don't like this place. - Really? 147 00:15:27,742 --> 00:15:32,075 I find it most stimulating. Come. 148 00:15:34,242 --> 00:15:37,075 Adso, we must not allow ourselves to be influenced... 149 00:15:37,242 --> 00:15:40,408 by irrational rumors of the Antichrist. 150 00:15:40,575 --> 00:15:43,533 Let us instead exercise our brains... 151 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:46,742 and try to solve this tantalizing conundrum. 152 00:15:59,492 --> 00:16:02,492 My master trusted Aristotle, the Greek philosophers... 153 00:16:02,658 --> 00:16:06,908 and the faculties of his own remarkable, logical intelligence. 154 00:16:07,075 --> 00:16:12,908 Unhappily, my fears were not mere phantoms of my youthful imagination. 155 00:16:13,075 --> 00:16:17,575 A rather dark end for such a brilliant illuminator. 156 00:16:35,283 --> 00:16:38,950 Another generous donation by the church to the poor. 157 00:16:40,908 --> 00:16:43,825 Now, what if it wasn't that tower that he fell from... 158 00:16:43,992 --> 00:16:49,325 but somewhere over there, and then the body rolled all the way down here? 159 00:16:49,575 --> 00:16:51,867 Adso? 160 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,950 No devil needed anymore. 161 00:17:12,617 --> 00:17:15,742 Yes. More blood here. 162 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,492 That's where he fell from. He jumped. 163 00:17:22,575 --> 00:17:24,992 Adso, are you paying attention? 164 00:17:25,158 --> 00:17:28,200 Yes. He jumped. 165 00:17:28,658 --> 00:17:32,908 He jumped? You mean that he committed suicide? 166 00:17:33,117 --> 00:17:37,158 Yes. Why else would someone go up there at night in a hailstorm? 167 00:17:37,325 --> 00:17:41,950 - Certainly not to admire the landscape. - No. Perhaps... 168 00:17:42,117 --> 00:17:43,867 Perhaps someone murdered him. 169 00:17:44,075 --> 00:17:47,200 And then toiled all the way up there with the body? 170 00:17:47,367 --> 00:17:51,450 Easier to get rid of it through that sluice gate they pour charity through. 171 00:17:51,617 --> 00:17:54,033 No, no. My dear Adso... 172 00:17:54,825 --> 00:17:57,658 It's elementary. 173 00:18:00,783 --> 00:18:03,033 Suicide. 174 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,200 Do you think that this... 175 00:18:05,367 --> 00:18:08,867 is a place abandoned by God? 176 00:18:09,033 --> 00:18:13,783 Have you ever known a place where God would have felt at home? 177 00:18:17,117 --> 00:18:20,075 We praise almighty God... 178 00:18:20,242 --> 00:18:25,575 that there are no grounds for suspecting an evil spirit among us... 179 00:18:25,742 --> 00:18:30,825 either of this world or another. 180 00:18:31,575 --> 00:18:34,575 We praise our Lord that the debate... 181 00:18:34,742 --> 00:18:37,575 which we are so greatly honored to host... 182 00:18:38,533 --> 00:18:43,367 may now proceed without a shadow of fear. 183 00:18:45,950 --> 00:18:50,533 We also praise the Almighty for sending Brother William of Baskerville... 184 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,867 whose experience in previous duties... 185 00:18:54,033 --> 00:18:57,658 although onerous to him... 186 00:18:57,867 --> 00:19:01,158 has been of such service to us here. 187 00:19:01,325 --> 00:19:04,992 May serenity and spiritual peace... 188 00:19:05,450 --> 00:19:10,492 reign once more in our hearts. 189 00:20:12,658 --> 00:20:15,200 Master? 190 00:20:20,158 --> 00:20:24,158 If I may ask, what... 191 00:20:24,325 --> 00:20:26,575 onerous duties... 192 00:20:26,741 --> 00:20:29,658 was the abbot talking about? 193 00:20:29,825 --> 00:20:32,575 Were you not always a monk? 194 00:20:32,741 --> 00:20:36,450 Even monks have pasts, Adso. 195 00:20:37,575 --> 00:20:39,575 Now, do try to sleep. 196 00:20:39,741 --> 00:20:42,033 I just... 197 00:20:43,116 --> 00:20:45,866 Yes, master. 198 00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:42,866 The beast... 199 00:21:45,158 --> 00:21:47,241 The virgin... 200 00:24:13,533 --> 00:24:17,866 This one, I grant you, did not commit suicide. 201 00:24:49,616 --> 00:24:52,075 - Water! - Here. 202 00:25:03,658 --> 00:25:05,533 I am to blame. 203 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,200 Had I not been so eager to believe your convenient explanation... 204 00:25:09,366 --> 00:25:11,241 this might have been prevented. 205 00:25:11,408 --> 00:25:15,533 I am absolutely convinced that Brother Adelmo took his own life. 206 00:25:15,741 --> 00:25:18,699 - Now, whether... - Then the hail... 207 00:25:18,866 --> 00:25:23,616 Whether this death is connected in any way with it, I intend to find... 208 00:25:23,824 --> 00:25:25,866 After the hailstorm... 209 00:25:26,033 --> 00:25:28,533 with the second trumpet... 210 00:25:28,699 --> 00:25:33,199 the sea became blood... 211 00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,949 and behold... 212 00:25:36,116 --> 00:25:39,616 here is blood. 213 00:25:39,783 --> 00:25:43,199 - The prophecy of the apocalypse! - The third trumpet. 214 00:25:43,366 --> 00:25:46,574 A burning star... 215 00:25:46,741 --> 00:25:51,241 will fall in fountains of water. 216 00:25:51,408 --> 00:25:54,699 Do not squander! The last seven days! 217 00:26:09,783 --> 00:26:13,158 Grated stem of waterwort for treating diarrhea. 218 00:26:13,324 --> 00:26:15,033 And as for onions... 219 00:26:15,199 --> 00:26:18,574 administered in small quantities, warm and moist... 220 00:26:18,741 --> 00:26:22,158 they help prolong the male erection... 221 00:26:22,324 --> 00:26:26,533 in those who have not taken our vows, naturally. 222 00:26:38,574 --> 00:26:40,741 Do you find many circumstances... 223 00:26:40,908 --> 00:26:45,324 in which you apply arsenic, Brother Severinus? 224 00:26:45,491 --> 00:26:50,533 Yes, indeed. It is a most effective remedy for nervous disorders... 225 00:26:51,116 --> 00:26:53,658 if taken as a compound in small doses. 226 00:26:54,449 --> 00:26:57,491 And what of not-so-small doses? 227 00:26:59,283 --> 00:27:01,574 Death. 228 00:27:10,033 --> 00:27:12,908 What was this man's function here? 229 00:27:13,074 --> 00:27:16,033 He was our finest translator of Greek... 230 00:27:16,199 --> 00:27:19,241 entirely devoted to the works of Aristotle. 231 00:27:19,408 --> 00:27:22,408 Was he on friendly terms with the handsome young Adelmo? 232 00:27:22,574 --> 00:27:26,074 Oh, indeed so. They worked together in the scriptorium. 233 00:27:26,449 --> 00:27:30,908 But in a brotherly way, you understand. Not like... 234 00:27:31,074 --> 00:27:35,241 I mean, flesh can be tempted according to nature... 235 00:27:35,408 --> 00:27:38,033 or against nature. 236 00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:40,741 And they were not of the latter disposition... 237 00:27:40,908 --> 00:27:43,658 if you ascertain my meaning. 238 00:28:53,116 --> 00:28:57,283 Watch out for the dracul who cometh in futurum to gnaw on your anima! 239 00:29:17,491 --> 00:29:20,824 Ugly con Salvatore, eh? 240 00:29:22,116 --> 00:29:24,949 My little brother, penitenziagite. 241 00:29:26,991 --> 00:29:29,241 Penitenziagite. 242 00:29:36,158 --> 00:29:38,783 You said, penitenziagite. I heard you. 243 00:30:10,908 --> 00:30:12,699 Master? 244 00:30:12,866 --> 00:30:15,408 What language was he speaking? 245 00:30:15,574 --> 00:30:19,658 All languages, and none. 246 00:30:19,824 --> 00:30:23,699 And what was the word you both kept mentioning? 247 00:30:23,866 --> 00:30:26,491 Penitenziagite. 248 00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:30,616 - What does it mean? - It means the hunchback, undoubtedly... 249 00:30:30,782 --> 00:30:33,407 was once a heretic. 250 00:30:33,949 --> 00:30:37,907 Penitenziagite was the rallying cry of the Dolcinites. 251 00:30:38,074 --> 00:30:41,324 Dolcinites? Who were they, master? 252 00:30:41,491 --> 00:30:44,324 Those who believed in the poverty of Christ. 253 00:30:44,491 --> 00:30:46,491 So do we Franciscans. 254 00:30:46,657 --> 00:30:49,324 But they also declared that everyone must be poor. 255 00:30:49,491 --> 00:30:52,532 So they slaughtered the rich. 256 00:30:54,866 --> 00:30:56,741 You see, Adso... 257 00:30:56,907 --> 00:31:01,116 the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy... 258 00:31:01,282 --> 00:31:04,032 is all too brief. 259 00:31:04,782 --> 00:31:09,532 Well, then, could he not have killed the translator? 260 00:31:09,699 --> 00:31:12,949 No. No. Fat bishops and wealthy priests... 261 00:31:13,116 --> 00:31:16,157 were more to the taste of the Dolcinites. 262 00:31:16,324 --> 00:31:19,074 Hardly a specialist of Aristotle. 263 00:31:19,241 --> 00:31:22,866 But, yes, you're right. We must keep an open mind. 264 00:31:29,074 --> 00:31:33,241 We are very fortunate to have such snowy ground here. 265 00:31:33,407 --> 00:31:37,782 It's often the parchment on which the criminal unwittingly writes his autograph. 266 00:31:38,282 --> 00:31:41,574 Now, what do you read from these footprints here? 267 00:31:41,782 --> 00:31:43,782 That they are... 268 00:31:43,949 --> 00:31:46,574 - twice as deep as the others. - Good, Adso. 269 00:31:46,741 --> 00:31:49,491 And thus we may conclude...? 270 00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:52,657 - Well, that the man was very heavy. - Precisely. 271 00:31:52,824 --> 00:31:55,949 And why was he very heavy? 272 00:31:56,991 --> 00:31:59,282 Because... 273 00:31:59,449 --> 00:32:03,074 - he was very fat? - Or because he was being burdened... 274 00:32:03,241 --> 00:32:06,449 with the weight of another man. 275 00:32:07,407 --> 00:32:10,991 Let us commit the autograph of this sole... 276 00:32:11,199 --> 00:32:13,449 to our memory. 277 00:32:14,949 --> 00:32:17,324 But the footprints lead away from the jar... 278 00:32:17,491 --> 00:32:20,199 in this direction. 279 00:32:20,366 --> 00:32:23,532 Oh, you turnip, Adso. You're discounting the possibility... 280 00:32:23,699 --> 00:32:27,074 that the man was walking backwards, dragging the body thus... 281 00:32:27,366 --> 00:32:30,532 Hence, the furrows created by the heels. 282 00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:34,324 Now, where did the erudite Greek translator... 283 00:32:34,491 --> 00:32:38,282 meet the anonymous author of his death? 284 00:33:07,449 --> 00:33:09,366 Brother librarian. 285 00:33:09,532 --> 00:33:14,491 Perhaps you will permit us to examine the work of the two unfortunates... 286 00:33:14,657 --> 00:33:16,741 so distressingly gathered unto God. 287 00:33:16,907 --> 00:33:19,782 Your request is most unusual. 288 00:33:19,949 --> 00:33:22,866 As are the circumstances of their deaths. 289 00:33:30,491 --> 00:33:32,657 Brother Adelmo sat there. 290 00:33:32,824 --> 00:33:35,366 Thank you. 291 00:33:57,282 --> 00:34:02,324 A donkey teaching the scriptures to the bishops. 292 00:34:04,241 --> 00:34:06,157 The pope is a fox. 293 00:34:07,366 --> 00:34:10,324 The abbot is a monkey. 294 00:34:10,991 --> 00:34:13,157 He really had a daring talent... 295 00:34:13,324 --> 00:34:15,949 for comic images. 296 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,157 I trust my words did not offend you, Brother William... 297 00:34:33,324 --> 00:34:37,366 but I heard persons laughing at laughable things. 298 00:34:37,532 --> 00:34:41,449 You Franciscans, however, belong to an order where merriment... 299 00:34:41,616 --> 00:34:44,449 - is viewed with indulgence. - Yes, it's true. 300 00:34:44,616 --> 00:34:46,866 St. Francis was much disposed to laughter. 301 00:34:47,032 --> 00:34:49,116 Laughter is a devilish wind... 302 00:34:49,282 --> 00:34:52,116 which deforms the lineaments of the face... 303 00:34:52,282 --> 00:34:54,741 and makes men look like monkeys. 304 00:34:54,907 --> 00:34:57,532 Monkeys do not laugh. 305 00:34:57,866 --> 00:35:00,574 Laughter is particular to man. 306 00:35:00,741 --> 00:35:02,449 As is sin. 307 00:35:02,616 --> 00:35:05,074 - Christ never laughed. - Can we be so sure? 308 00:35:05,241 --> 00:35:08,324 There is nothing in the scriptures to say that he did. 309 00:35:08,491 --> 00:35:10,991 Nothing in the scriptures says that he did not. 310 00:35:11,157 --> 00:35:13,574 Even the saints have employed comedy... 311 00:35:13,741 --> 00:35:16,574 to ridicule the enemies of the faith. 312 00:35:16,741 --> 00:35:20,866 For example, when the pagans plunged St. Maurus into the boiling water... 313 00:35:21,032 --> 00:35:25,949 he complained his bath was too cold. The sultan put his hand in, scalded it. 314 00:35:26,491 --> 00:35:32,282 A saint immersed in boiling water does not play childish tricks. 315 00:35:32,449 --> 00:35:37,366 He restrains his cries and suffers for the truth. 316 00:35:37,532 --> 00:35:41,199 And yet, Aristotle devoted his second book of Poetics... 317 00:35:41,366 --> 00:35:45,699 to comedy as an instrument of truth. 318 00:35:46,866 --> 00:35:49,449 - You have read this work? - No, of course not. 319 00:35:49,616 --> 00:35:54,241 - It's been lost for many centuries. - No, it has not. It was never written. 320 00:35:54,407 --> 00:35:58,741 Because providence doesn't want futile things glorified. 321 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:01,782 - Oh, that I must contest... - Enough! 322 00:36:01,949 --> 00:36:04,615 This abbey's overshadowed by grief... 323 00:36:04,782 --> 00:36:09,741 yet you would intrude on our sorrow with idle banter! 324 00:36:11,157 --> 00:36:15,740 Forgive me, Venerable Jorge. My remarks were truly out of place. 325 00:36:21,490 --> 00:36:25,282 - Which was the Greek translator's desk? - This one. 326 00:36:38,824 --> 00:36:40,365 Come, Adso. 327 00:36:51,449 --> 00:36:55,032 Well, Adso, what did you deduce from that visit? 328 00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:58,074 That we are not meant to laugh in there. 329 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:02,949 But did you notice how few books there were on the scriptorium shelves? 330 00:37:03,407 --> 00:37:08,699 All those scriveners, copyists, translators, researchers, thinkers... 331 00:37:08,865 --> 00:37:12,699 But where are the multitude of books that they need for their work? 332 00:37:12,865 --> 00:37:18,865 And for which this abbey is famed? Where are the books? 333 00:37:21,074 --> 00:37:24,615 - Are you testing me, master? - What do you mean? 334 00:37:25,574 --> 00:37:27,532 Well, with all due respect... 335 00:37:27,699 --> 00:37:32,449 it seems that whenever you ask me a question, you already have the answer. 336 00:37:33,824 --> 00:37:37,949 - Do you know where the books are? - No. 337 00:37:39,074 --> 00:37:45,449 But I'll wager my faith that that tower contains something other than air. 338 00:37:54,157 --> 00:37:57,990 Did you notice that little door the librarian closed as we came in? 339 00:37:58,157 --> 00:38:01,032 - Yes. - Could that lead to the library? 340 00:38:18,115 --> 00:38:21,699 Master! Master, quick! I have him! 341 00:38:23,324 --> 00:38:27,657 - Stop! Enough! - Master, he tried to kill us! 342 00:38:31,490 --> 00:38:32,740 Salvatore! 343 00:38:36,615 --> 00:38:41,574 Please, my lord, don't talk to the abbot about his past. 344 00:38:41,740 --> 00:38:46,282 He's innocent of the deaths in this abbey. I swear it. 345 00:38:48,282 --> 00:38:53,740 Brother Remigio. My price is some information. 346 00:39:01,324 --> 00:39:04,990 I could not comprehend why my master so quickly dismissed... 347 00:39:05,157 --> 00:39:08,282 my suspicions of the heretical hunchback... 348 00:39:08,449 --> 00:39:11,949 and why it was so urgent that we visit the tower. 349 00:39:12,115 --> 00:39:14,657 I assumed he could not resist the temptation... 350 00:39:14,824 --> 00:39:18,615 to penetrate the library and look at the books. 351 00:40:35,990 --> 00:40:40,240 No lock. Just as I thought, it must be bolted from the inside. 352 00:40:40,407 --> 00:40:41,949 How do we get in? 353 00:40:42,115 --> 00:40:45,324 Well, obviously, there must be another entrance. 354 00:40:46,407 --> 00:40:49,324 Let us see what the moon-faced assistant librarian... 355 00:40:49,490 --> 00:40:52,824 was trying to conceal from us this morning, shall we? 356 00:41:11,949 --> 00:41:16,282 Tiny Greek letters, perhaps written by an ant with inky feet. 357 00:41:44,448 --> 00:41:46,323 Ah, yes. 358 00:41:49,657 --> 00:41:51,365 Written with lemon juice. 359 00:41:59,157 --> 00:42:00,740 Sagittarius. 360 00:42:00,907 --> 00:42:02,573 The sun. 361 00:42:02,865 --> 00:42:04,157 Mercury. 362 00:42:05,198 --> 00:42:06,948 Scorpio. 363 00:42:08,865 --> 00:42:15,198 It's some zodiacal code giving directions, but to where? 364 00:42:17,198 --> 00:42:18,990 Hey! Who's there? 365 00:42:19,157 --> 00:42:20,698 Who's there? 366 00:42:41,073 --> 00:42:44,032 - My magnifying glasses! - They were on that book. 367 00:42:51,323 --> 00:42:53,073 You go that way. 368 00:43:58,407 --> 00:44:02,198 Come on out, you little bitch. 369 00:44:02,782 --> 00:44:07,157 I know you are here. I can smell you. 370 00:44:11,990 --> 00:44:17,157 What's the matter with you, huh? Are you afraid of me? 371 00:44:36,115 --> 00:44:38,323 I'll find you. 372 00:45:36,740 --> 00:45:38,490 Who was she? 373 00:45:38,657 --> 00:45:42,407 Who was this creature that rose like the dawn... 374 00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:47,198 was bewitching as the moon, radiant as the sun... 375 00:45:47,365 --> 00:45:50,990 terrible as an army poised for battle? 376 00:49:14,406 --> 00:49:17,031 Good evening, Salvatore. 377 00:49:22,615 --> 00:49:25,490 This is where you catch them? 378 00:49:27,365 --> 00:49:31,615 You see, they are più grasso. Bigger, eh? 379 00:49:31,781 --> 00:49:33,198 You... 380 00:49:33,365 --> 00:49:35,115 You eat them? 381 00:49:36,656 --> 00:49:38,198 You like? 382 00:49:38,365 --> 00:49:40,573 Thank you, no. No. 383 00:49:44,698 --> 00:49:47,948 As you're a good Christian, you must tell me this. 384 00:49:57,906 --> 00:50:02,365 So Adelmo gave the parchment to Berengar. 385 00:50:02,531 --> 00:50:03,823 No, no. 386 00:50:03,990 --> 00:50:07,406 To the translo... The transla... 387 00:50:07,573 --> 00:50:10,365 Translator! Venantius, the black monk. 388 00:50:10,531 --> 00:50:13,990 - And what happened then? - Then... 389 00:50:47,490 --> 00:50:50,948 Master! In here, quick. I found another one. 390 00:50:59,906 --> 00:51:03,865 Where are your wits, boy? Have you ever met anyone... 391 00:51:04,031 --> 00:51:09,615 with a rib cage large enough to accommodate a heart of that dimension? 392 00:51:09,781 --> 00:51:11,240 No. 393 00:51:12,115 --> 00:51:13,573 No. 394 00:51:13,865 --> 00:51:16,656 It is the heart of an ox. 395 00:51:17,781 --> 00:51:20,990 One of the monks probably gave it to that peasant girl... 396 00:51:21,156 --> 00:51:24,156 in exchange for her favors. 397 00:51:24,323 --> 00:51:26,656 Girl? Well, what...? 398 00:51:27,823 --> 00:51:31,323 The one I saw scuttling out of here. 399 00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:38,156 - He must have been a very ugly monk. - Why ugly? 400 00:51:41,031 --> 00:51:43,531 If he'd been young and beautiful... 401 00:51:43,698 --> 00:51:49,240 she would no doubt have blessed him with her carnal favors for nothing. 402 00:51:50,115 --> 00:51:53,781 In any event, whatever happened in this dreadful kitchen... 403 00:51:53,948 --> 00:51:57,490 has no bearing on our investigations. 404 00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:01,865 Salvatore convinced me that Brother Berengar, the assistant librarian... 405 00:52:02,031 --> 00:52:05,365 is the key to the whole enigma. What did you say? 406 00:52:05,740 --> 00:52:09,740 - Nothing, master. - Good. 407 00:52:25,865 --> 00:52:27,490 Master? 408 00:52:30,781 --> 00:52:33,573 There's something I must tell you. 409 00:52:34,865 --> 00:52:36,656 I know. 410 00:52:38,698 --> 00:52:41,615 Then will you hear my confession? 411 00:52:41,781 --> 00:52:47,114 Well, I'd rather you told me first as a friend. 412 00:52:53,614 --> 00:52:55,364 Master. 413 00:52:57,114 --> 00:52:58,656 Have you... 414 00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,114 ever been... 415 00:53:02,323 --> 00:53:04,031 in love? 416 00:53:04,198 --> 00:53:08,156 In love? Yeah. Many times. 417 00:53:08,323 --> 00:53:11,323 - You were? - Yes, of course. 418 00:53:11,489 --> 00:53:13,448 Aristotle, Ovid, Virgil... 419 00:53:13,614 --> 00:53:18,114 No, no, no. I meant with a... 420 00:53:18,656 --> 00:53:23,114 Are you not confusing love with lust? 421 00:53:23,739 --> 00:53:25,281 Am I? 422 00:53:26,864 --> 00:53:28,739 I don't know. 423 00:53:29,989 --> 00:53:32,906 I want only her own good. 424 00:53:34,406 --> 00:53:36,864 I want her to be happy. 425 00:53:37,031 --> 00:53:40,156 I want to save her from her poverty. 426 00:53:41,656 --> 00:53:45,073 - Oh, dear. - Why oh, dear? 427 00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,614 You are in love. 428 00:53:48,156 --> 00:53:50,073 Is that bad? 429 00:53:51,364 --> 00:53:55,156 For a monk, it does present certain problems. 430 00:53:55,323 --> 00:53:59,114 But doesn't St. Thomas Aquinas praise love above all other virtues? 431 00:53:59,281 --> 00:54:04,323 Yes. The love of God, Adso. The love of God. 432 00:54:08,906 --> 00:54:11,948 And the love of woman? 433 00:54:12,114 --> 00:54:16,781 Of woman, Thomas Aquinas knew precious little. 434 00:54:16,948 --> 00:54:19,406 But the scriptures are very clear. 435 00:54:19,573 --> 00:54:24,281 Proverbs warns us, woman takes possession of a man's precious soul. 436 00:54:24,448 --> 00:54:30,531 While Ecclesiastes tells us, more bitter than death is woman. 437 00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,031 Yes, but... 438 00:54:34,781 --> 00:54:37,989 - What do you think, master? - Well... 439 00:54:38,323 --> 00:54:43,489 Of course, I don't have the benefit of your experience. 440 00:54:43,656 --> 00:54:46,823 But I find it difficult to convince myself... 441 00:54:46,989 --> 00:54:52,531 that God would have introduced such a foul being into creation... 442 00:54:52,698 --> 00:54:58,114 without endowing her with some virtues. 443 00:55:01,489 --> 00:55:05,364 How peaceful life would be without love, Adso. 444 00:55:06,531 --> 00:55:08,323 How safe. 445 00:55:08,614 --> 00:55:10,406 How tranquil. 446 00:55:13,698 --> 00:55:15,198 And how dull. 447 00:55:29,198 --> 00:55:32,989 How beautiful. Lord, you have guided our steps... 448 00:55:33,156 --> 00:55:36,031 to this refuge of spiritual peace... 449 00:55:36,198 --> 00:55:40,614 because you wish for reconciliation as much as we Franciscans. 450 00:55:41,031 --> 00:55:45,198 - Let us go, brothers. - Thy will be done, O Lord. 451 00:55:45,364 --> 00:55:47,073 Amen. Amen. 452 00:55:49,323 --> 00:55:50,948 Brother Berengar? 453 00:55:57,823 --> 00:56:00,698 He's probably hiding somewhere... 454 00:56:01,531 --> 00:56:05,073 with the book and my magnifying glasses. 455 00:56:13,739 --> 00:56:15,823 Brother Berengar. 456 00:56:21,156 --> 00:56:23,781 Master, look. The door. 457 00:56:33,448 --> 00:56:38,239 Brother Malachia. I was just looking for your assistant, Brother Berengar. 458 00:56:38,406 --> 00:56:40,823 - Is he here? - No. 459 00:56:41,073 --> 00:56:43,114 Oh, I see. 460 00:56:43,323 --> 00:56:48,406 - Do you know where we might find him? - No. 461 00:56:48,573 --> 00:56:53,531 - Is he perhaps upstairs in the library? - No. 462 00:56:54,198 --> 00:56:56,698 I am curious to see the library for myself. 463 00:56:56,864 --> 00:56:59,156 - May I do so? - No. 464 00:57:00,531 --> 00:57:01,906 Why not? 465 00:57:02,073 --> 00:57:05,698 It is a strict rule of the abbot that no one is permitted... 466 00:57:05,864 --> 00:57:10,739 to enter the abbey library other than myself and my assistant. 467 00:57:10,906 --> 00:57:12,614 I see. 468 00:57:13,114 --> 00:57:14,989 Thank you again. 469 00:57:27,698 --> 00:57:30,614 Maybe something's happened to him. 470 00:57:32,073 --> 00:57:35,656 - Maybe we'll find him in water. - What? 471 00:57:35,823 --> 00:57:39,031 The third trumpet, master, as Ubertino said. 472 00:57:39,198 --> 00:57:44,573 - The book of Revelation. - That is not the book we're after. 473 00:57:52,573 --> 00:57:57,323 You call this chicken, do you? It looks more like a sparrow. 474 00:58:11,406 --> 00:58:16,739 Welcome to our abbey, Brother Michele, and to your fellow Franciscan delegates. 475 00:58:16,906 --> 00:58:21,864 Hey, you, paesano! Go! You get in line like the others. Go! 476 00:58:22,031 --> 00:58:24,656 - Unhand me! - Salvatore, let him go. 477 00:58:24,822 --> 00:58:30,114 This is Cuthbert of Winchester, one of our most esteemed Franciscan guests. 478 00:58:30,281 --> 00:58:33,614 Come, Your Grace. We have a most urgent matter to discuss. 479 00:58:36,281 --> 00:58:38,781 The abbot and his colleagues seem convinced... 480 00:58:38,947 --> 00:58:41,531 that the devil is at work within these walls. 481 00:58:41,697 --> 00:58:43,906 He is. 482 00:58:44,072 --> 00:58:47,281 The only evidence I see of the devil... 483 00:58:47,447 --> 00:58:49,906 is everyone's desire to see him at work. 484 00:58:50,072 --> 00:58:52,489 What if Ubertino is right and you wrong? 485 00:58:52,656 --> 00:58:55,197 Don't forget this debate is crucial to us all. 486 00:58:55,364 --> 00:58:57,572 We suspect the pope wants to crush our order. 487 00:58:59,239 --> 00:59:01,114 Yes, and declare us all heretics. 488 00:59:01,281 --> 00:59:07,114 I only have one brother to question, and the entire matter is resolved. 489 00:59:07,656 --> 00:59:11,364 William, we place our trust in you. 490 00:59:11,531 --> 00:59:14,781 Pray God you do not abuse it. 491 00:59:19,406 --> 00:59:21,197 Brother William. 492 01:00:03,656 --> 01:00:06,072 Did you find a book in Greek? 493 01:00:06,239 --> 01:00:07,489 No. 494 01:00:20,947 --> 01:00:22,864 I was right. 495 01:00:23,406 --> 01:00:26,322 So was the book of Revelation. 496 01:00:27,739 --> 01:00:31,406 - We must talk at once. - Indeed, we must. 497 01:00:32,031 --> 01:00:34,614 And I have much to tell. 498 01:00:34,781 --> 01:00:38,322 Just as soon as he and I have examined this corpse. 499 01:00:42,031 --> 01:00:45,447 Lime leaves in the bath are always used to alleviate pain. 500 01:00:45,614 --> 01:00:48,489 - He was left-handed. - Yes, yes. 501 01:00:48,656 --> 01:00:51,572 Brother Berengar was inverted in many ways. 502 01:00:51,739 --> 01:00:55,322 Are there other left-handed brothers in the abbey here? 503 01:00:55,489 --> 01:00:57,531 None that I know of. 504 01:00:58,531 --> 01:01:00,281 Ink stains. 505 01:01:09,906 --> 01:01:13,156 He did not write with his tongue, I presume. 506 01:01:22,572 --> 01:01:25,906 - A few lines of Greek. - Yes. 507 01:01:26,072 --> 01:01:28,614 Written by Venantius. 508 01:01:28,781 --> 01:01:34,239 Some random notes from the book he was reading just before he died. 509 01:01:34,406 --> 01:01:38,197 Do you see how the calligraphy changes? 510 01:01:38,697 --> 01:01:40,572 From this point on, he was dying. 511 01:01:40,739 --> 01:01:43,822 And what, my lord, do you conclude from that? 512 01:01:45,489 --> 01:01:48,864 A smudge of blue paint. 513 01:01:49,447 --> 01:01:52,447 Yes, but a unique smudge of blue... 514 01:01:52,614 --> 01:01:55,739 blended by your finest illuminator, Brother Adelmo... 515 01:01:55,906 --> 01:01:58,614 who possessed this parchment before Venantius. 516 01:01:58,781 --> 01:02:01,781 And how do we know that? Because those random notes... 517 01:02:01,947 --> 01:02:06,739 overrun Adelmo's blue smudge, and not vice versa. 518 01:02:07,281 --> 01:02:13,864 Brother William, this abbey is enshrouded in a terrifying mystery. 519 01:02:14,197 --> 01:02:18,156 Yet I detect nothing in your obscure dissertation... 520 01:02:18,322 --> 01:02:21,531 that sheds any light upon it. 521 01:02:23,781 --> 01:02:25,156 Light. 522 01:02:28,656 --> 01:02:35,031 Someone was at great pains to conceal a secret of the first magnitude. 523 01:02:35,572 --> 01:02:39,239 Now, the calligraphy is, without question, left-handed. 524 01:02:39,406 --> 01:02:42,697 And the only left-handed member of your community is... 525 01:02:42,864 --> 01:02:46,531 or rather was, Brother Berengar, the assistant librarian. 526 01:02:46,697 --> 01:02:52,406 Now, what kind of secret knowledge would he have been privy to? 527 01:02:52,572 --> 01:02:55,447 I have the feeling that you're about to tell me. 528 01:02:55,656 --> 01:02:58,114 Books. Restricted books. 529 01:02:58,281 --> 01:03:01,739 Spiritually dangerous books. 530 01:03:02,114 --> 01:03:06,281 Everyone here knew of the assistant librarian's passion for handsome boys. 531 01:03:06,447 --> 01:03:10,322 When the beautiful Adelmo wanted to read such a forbidden book... 532 01:03:10,489 --> 01:03:13,739 Berengar offered Adelmo the key to its whereabouts... 533 01:03:13,906 --> 01:03:16,989 enciphered on that parchment... 534 01:03:17,156 --> 01:03:22,406 - in exchange for unnatural caresses. - Enough, Brother William! 535 01:03:22,572 --> 01:03:26,906 Adelmo agreed and duly submitted to Berengar's lustful advances. 536 01:03:27,072 --> 01:03:29,614 Afterwards, wracked by remorse, he wandered... 537 01:03:29,781 --> 01:03:34,239 crying and desperate in the graveyard, where he met the Greek translator. 538 01:03:34,406 --> 01:03:37,489 - How could you know this? - There was a witness. 539 01:03:37,656 --> 01:03:39,531 The hunchback... 540 01:03:39,864 --> 01:03:44,364 who saw Adelmo giving this parchment to Venantius. 541 01:03:44,864 --> 01:03:49,531 Then running towards the small tower and hurling himself out of the window. 542 01:03:49,947 --> 01:03:53,655 The night of my arrival, while Berengar punished his sinful flesh... 543 01:03:53,822 --> 01:03:57,447 Venantius, helped by the coded instructions on the parchment... 544 01:03:57,614 --> 01:04:01,572 made his way into the forbidden library and found the book. 545 01:04:01,739 --> 01:04:06,280 He took it back to his desk in the scriptorium and began to read it. 546 01:04:06,447 --> 01:04:09,489 After scribbling down those few mysterious quotations... 547 01:04:09,655 --> 01:04:12,530 he died with a black stain on his finger. 548 01:04:12,697 --> 01:04:16,239 The assistant librarian discovered the body... 549 01:04:16,405 --> 01:04:21,572 and dragged it down to the pigpens to avert suspicion falling on him. 550 01:04:21,739 --> 01:04:24,739 But he left his autograph behind. 551 01:04:24,905 --> 01:04:27,655 The book remained on the translator's desk. 552 01:04:27,822 --> 01:04:30,989 Berengar returned there last night and read it. 553 01:04:31,155 --> 01:04:35,072 Soon after, overcome by some agonizing pain... 554 01:04:35,239 --> 01:04:40,239 he tried to take a soothing bath with lime leaves and drowned. 555 01:04:40,822 --> 01:04:42,905 He, too, had a blackened finger. 556 01:04:43,072 --> 01:04:46,572 All three died because of a book which kills... 557 01:04:46,739 --> 01:04:48,697 or for which men will kill. 558 01:04:48,864 --> 01:04:53,447 I therefore urge you to grant me access to the library. 559 01:04:53,614 --> 01:04:55,947 Brother William! 560 01:04:56,197 --> 01:04:59,280 Your pride blinds you. 561 01:05:00,114 --> 01:05:02,405 By idolizing reason... 562 01:05:02,572 --> 01:05:08,197 you fail to see what is obvious to everyone in this abbey. 563 01:05:10,364 --> 01:05:15,614 They have arrived, the papal delegation. Bernardo Gui... 564 01:05:23,364 --> 01:05:25,614 Thank you, Brother William. 565 01:05:26,822 --> 01:05:30,697 We are mindful of your efforts... 566 01:05:30,864 --> 01:05:33,114 but I should now ask you... 567 01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:37,697 to refrain from further investigations. 568 01:05:38,197 --> 01:05:44,280 Happily, there will be someone arriving with the papal delegation... 569 01:05:45,530 --> 01:05:50,030 who is well-versed in the wiles of the evil one. 570 01:05:53,780 --> 01:05:58,572 A man, I believe, you know only too well. 571 01:06:01,572 --> 01:06:02,989 Bernardo Gui... 572 01:06:04,572 --> 01:06:06,530 of the Inquisition. 573 01:06:15,364 --> 01:06:17,030 Master. 574 01:06:17,405 --> 01:06:19,655 Who is Bernardo Gui? 575 01:06:20,655 --> 01:06:25,322 William! I've been searching the entire abbey for you. 576 01:06:25,489 --> 01:06:28,739 Michele wishes to speak with you at once. 577 01:06:29,655 --> 01:06:31,197 Alone. 578 01:06:31,947 --> 01:06:35,530 - Do you know who is coming? - I know, I know. Bernardo Gui. 579 01:06:35,697 --> 01:06:37,947 Ubertino must be moved to a safe place. 580 01:06:38,114 --> 01:06:42,114 The arrangements have been made. It is you that concerns us, William. 581 01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,905 You must now put aside these totally irrelevant investigations. 582 01:06:46,072 --> 01:06:50,114 - And erroneous conclusions. - It is the truth, and I am right. 583 01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:52,697 William is right. William is always right! 584 01:06:52,864 --> 01:06:58,239 No matter what the consequences, to himself or anyone else... 585 01:06:58,405 --> 01:07:04,114 William of Baskerville must always prove himself right. 586 01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:08,239 Was it not your vanity, your stubborn intellectual pride... 587 01:07:08,405 --> 01:07:11,405 that brought you into conflict with Bernardo before? 588 01:07:11,572 --> 01:07:13,447 Do not tempt fate twice, William. 589 01:07:13,614 --> 01:07:18,155 Even the emperor won't be able to save you if you tangle with Bernardo again. 590 01:07:32,989 --> 01:07:38,489 My flesh had forgotten the sinful pleasure that our union had given me... 591 01:07:38,697 --> 01:07:41,614 but my soul could not forget her. 592 01:07:45,989 --> 01:07:47,947 And now... 593 01:07:48,322 --> 01:07:52,280 Now that I saw her in the midst of her poverty and squalor... 594 01:07:52,447 --> 01:07:55,614 I praised God in my heart that I was a Franciscan. 595 01:07:56,447 --> 01:08:00,864 I wanted her to know that I did not belong to this rapacious abbey... 596 01:08:01,030 --> 01:08:06,530 but to an order dedicated to lifting her people out of their physical destitution... 597 01:08:10,614 --> 01:08:12,864 and spiritual deprivation. 598 01:09:08,072 --> 01:09:10,364 Farewell, William. 599 01:09:11,114 --> 01:09:15,489 You are mad and arrogant... 600 01:09:15,655 --> 01:09:20,989 but I love you and shall never cease to pray for you. 601 01:09:22,905 --> 01:09:26,197 Goodbye, dear child. 602 01:09:27,988 --> 01:09:32,530 Try not to learn too many bad examples from your master. 603 01:09:32,697 --> 01:09:35,280 He thinks too much. 604 01:09:35,447 --> 01:09:39,113 Relying always on the deductions of his head... 605 01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:43,780 instead of trusting in the prophetic... 606 01:09:43,947 --> 01:09:48,905 capacities of his heart. 607 01:09:49,488 --> 01:09:52,988 Learn to mortify your intelligence. 608 01:09:53,155 --> 01:09:57,197 Weep over the wounds of our Lord! 609 01:09:58,238 --> 01:10:02,530 And do throw away those books! 610 01:10:02,738 --> 01:10:06,405 There is a side of Ubertino that I truly envy. 611 01:10:06,572 --> 01:10:11,113 Remember, fear the last trumpet, my friends. 612 01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:17,363 The next will fall from the sky, and then will come 1000 scorpions. 613 01:10:17,530 --> 01:10:19,780 Yes, yes. We won't forget. 614 01:10:49,655 --> 01:10:52,363 Which one frightens you most? 615 01:10:54,238 --> 01:10:57,197 - They all do. - No. Look closely. 616 01:11:04,405 --> 01:11:08,447 - That one. - My choice exactly. 617 01:11:19,363 --> 01:11:21,363 Well... 618 01:11:28,947 --> 01:11:30,613 After you. 619 01:12:22,238 --> 01:12:27,322 Those are the foundations of the tower. 620 01:12:34,530 --> 01:12:37,030 But how we reach the library... 621 01:12:39,697 --> 01:12:43,238 The rats love parchment even more than scholars do. 622 01:12:43,405 --> 01:12:45,322 Let's follow him. 623 01:12:50,947 --> 01:12:57,447 166. Bolted scriptorium door. 167, 168, 169, 170. 624 01:12:59,072 --> 01:13:03,155 317, 318... 625 01:13:09,155 --> 01:13:11,697 I knew it! 626 01:13:15,197 --> 01:13:19,072 Adso! I knew it! 627 01:13:43,738 --> 01:13:46,488 Adso, do you realize... 628 01:13:46,655 --> 01:13:51,572 we're in one of the greatest libraries in the whole of Christendom? 629 01:14:16,447 --> 01:14:18,905 How will we find the book we're looking for? 630 01:14:19,072 --> 01:14:21,030 In time. 631 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:25,905 The Beatus of Liébana. 632 01:14:26,113 --> 01:14:29,780 That, Adso, is a masterpiece. 633 01:14:31,155 --> 01:14:34,988 And this is the version annotated by Umberto de Bologna. 634 01:14:35,155 --> 01:14:39,655 How many more rooms, huh? How many more books? 635 01:14:44,613 --> 01:14:49,280 No one should be forbidden to consult these books freely. 636 01:14:55,822 --> 01:15:00,738 Perhaps they are thought to be too precious, too fragile. 637 01:15:01,155 --> 01:15:03,821 No. It's not that, Adso. 638 01:15:03,988 --> 01:15:07,488 It's because they often contain a wisdom different from ours... 639 01:15:07,655 --> 01:15:11,197 and ideas that could encourage us to doubt... 640 01:15:11,363 --> 01:15:14,821 the infallibility of the word of God. 641 01:15:23,905 --> 01:15:25,780 Master? 642 01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:32,863 And doubt, Adso, is the enemy of faith. 643 01:15:34,655 --> 01:15:36,905 Master? 644 01:15:52,238 --> 01:15:54,530 Master? 645 01:15:54,696 --> 01:15:56,363 Master! 646 01:15:56,530 --> 01:15:58,696 Wait for me! 647 01:16:01,113 --> 01:16:03,655 But I am waiting for you. 648 01:16:09,071 --> 01:16:12,238 But I can hear you walking. 649 01:16:12,821 --> 01:16:16,238 I'm not walking, Adso. I'm down here. 650 01:16:34,821 --> 01:16:37,446 Is that you up there? 651 01:16:38,238 --> 01:16:40,696 Where are you, boy? 652 01:16:42,071 --> 01:16:44,863 I'm lost! 653 01:17:05,696 --> 01:17:07,863 Well, Adso... 654 01:17:08,030 --> 01:17:11,446 it would appear that we're in a labyrinth. 655 01:17:23,738 --> 01:17:25,488 Are you still there? 656 01:17:25,655 --> 01:17:27,613 Yes. 657 01:17:27,780 --> 01:17:30,488 How will we get out? 658 01:17:30,655 --> 01:17:33,030 With some difficulty... 659 01:17:33,196 --> 01:17:35,488 if at all. 660 01:17:35,655 --> 01:17:40,738 You see, Adso, that is the charm of a labyrinth. 661 01:17:40,946 --> 01:17:43,488 Adso, stay calm. 662 01:17:43,655 --> 01:17:46,405 Open a book and read aloud. 663 01:17:46,613 --> 01:17:51,905 Leave the room you're in and keep turning left. 664 01:17:52,071 --> 01:17:54,655 Love does not originate as an illness... 665 01:17:54,821 --> 01:17:57,821 but is transformed into it when it becomes obsessive. 666 01:17:57,988 --> 01:18:00,488 The Muslim theologian Ibn Hazm states... 667 01:18:00,655 --> 01:18:03,738 that the lovesick person does not want to be healed... 668 01:18:03,905 --> 01:18:07,530 and his dreams cause irregular breathing and quicken the pulse. 669 01:18:07,696 --> 01:18:10,988 He identifies amorous melancholia with lycanthropy... 670 01:18:11,155 --> 01:18:15,196 a disease that induces wolf like behavior in its victims. 671 01:18:15,363 --> 01:18:19,821 The lover's outward appearance begins to change. 672 01:18:20,030 --> 01:18:23,280 Soon his eyesight fails, his lips shrivel... 673 01:18:23,446 --> 01:18:26,405 his face becomes covered with pustules and scabs. 674 01:18:26,613 --> 01:18:30,530 Marks resembling the bites of a dog appear on his face... 675 01:18:30,696 --> 01:18:34,488 and he ends his days by prowling graveyards... 676 01:18:34,655 --> 01:18:37,280 at night... 677 01:18:37,446 --> 01:18:38,655 like a wolf. 678 01:18:39,446 --> 01:18:42,280 Master, I can see a lantern. 679 01:18:42,446 --> 01:18:47,405 Don't move. Stay where you are. 680 01:18:47,571 --> 01:18:50,696 I can see a man. He stopped. 681 01:18:50,905 --> 01:18:53,405 What is he doing? 682 01:18:53,571 --> 01:18:55,696 He's raising his lantern. 683 01:18:55,863 --> 01:18:58,530 How many times? 684 01:19:00,238 --> 01:19:02,280 Three times. 685 01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:04,863 It is I. Raise your lantern. 686 01:19:16,988 --> 01:19:18,446 Look! There! 687 01:19:25,655 --> 01:19:29,155 You foolish boy. 688 01:19:29,363 --> 01:19:31,696 It's only a mirror. 689 01:19:35,113 --> 01:19:36,946 Master! 690 01:19:38,655 --> 01:19:41,946 - The books, boy! Save the books! - I'm trying to save you! 691 01:19:51,988 --> 01:19:54,863 A trap door and a mirror. We must be almost there. 692 01:20:03,155 --> 01:20:06,196 If I have deciphered the instructions... 693 01:20:06,363 --> 01:20:08,821 of the Greek translator correctly... 694 01:20:10,071 --> 01:20:12,238 You did not think me so foolish... 695 01:20:12,405 --> 01:20:16,155 as to surrender our parchment to the abbot without making a copy? 696 01:20:16,863 --> 01:20:23,113 Manus supra idolum, age primum et septimus de quatuor is what? 697 01:20:28,446 --> 01:20:33,030 With the hand above the idol... 698 01:20:33,196 --> 01:20:37,821 press the first and the seventh of four. 699 01:20:37,988 --> 01:20:39,363 Very good. 700 01:20:42,154 --> 01:20:43,321 What idol? 701 01:20:43,488 --> 01:20:45,779 That is what we're here to find out. 702 01:20:45,946 --> 01:20:48,404 And the first and the seventh of four what? 703 01:20:48,571 --> 01:20:52,613 If I had the answers to everything, I'd be teaching theology in Paris. 704 01:21:52,279 --> 01:21:54,738 And again. 705 01:22:00,321 --> 01:22:02,446 Do you hear that? 706 01:22:06,238 --> 01:22:08,529 - It's my teeth, master. - What? 707 01:22:08,738 --> 01:22:10,446 My teeth. 708 01:22:10,613 --> 01:22:12,821 Don't be afraid. 709 01:22:13,404 --> 01:22:16,321 I'm not afraid. I'm cold. 710 01:22:16,946 --> 01:22:20,821 Well, we shall return. 711 01:22:20,988 --> 01:22:22,529 Don't leave on my account. 712 01:22:22,696 --> 01:22:27,571 No, no, no. I must confess, it eludes me for the moment. 713 01:22:29,238 --> 01:22:31,779 Now, let me see... 714 01:22:31,946 --> 01:22:35,529 To find your way out of the labyrinth... 715 01:22:36,613 --> 01:22:42,196 when you come to a fork, you mark it with an arrow... No, no, no. No. 716 01:22:43,821 --> 01:22:45,154 Master? 717 01:22:45,321 --> 01:22:47,404 Please, dear boy. I'm thinking. 718 01:22:47,571 --> 01:22:51,238 - If there are arrows at the forks... - Master! 719 01:22:58,404 --> 01:23:01,238 Well done, boy! 720 01:23:01,404 --> 01:23:05,571 Your classical education serves us well. 721 01:24:17,238 --> 01:24:18,863 Thank you. 722 01:24:22,613 --> 01:24:25,154 Lucifer, be at my service. 723 01:25:19,821 --> 01:25:22,113 Lord Bernardo, look what we found! 724 01:25:22,279 --> 01:25:24,113 Search the creature. 725 01:25:40,029 --> 01:25:44,863 My lord abbot, you invited me to investigate the presence... 726 01:25:45,029 --> 01:25:47,779 of the evil one in your abbey... 727 01:25:49,446 --> 01:25:51,613 And I have already found it. 728 01:25:54,904 --> 01:25:58,946 How many times have I seen these objects of devil worship. 729 01:25:59,113 --> 01:26:02,863 The black cockerel and the black cat? 730 01:26:03,071 --> 01:26:05,571 But she did it for the food, not the devil. 731 01:26:05,738 --> 01:26:09,612 William of Baskerville must surely recall the trial he presided over... 732 01:26:10,612 --> 01:26:14,071 in which a woman confessed to having intercourse with a demon... 733 01:26:14,237 --> 01:26:15,862 in the form of a black cat. 734 01:26:16,071 --> 01:26:19,779 I'm very sure that you don't have to draw on my past experiences... 735 01:26:19,987 --> 01:26:23,279 to formulate your conclusions, Lord Bernardo. 736 01:26:23,446 --> 01:26:28,404 No, indeed. Not when faced with such irrefutable evidence. 737 01:26:28,571 --> 01:26:33,154 A witch! A seduced monk! Satanic rites! 738 01:26:33,321 --> 01:26:35,237 Tomorrow... 739 01:26:35,404 --> 01:26:38,487 we endeavor to learn if these events are connected... 740 01:26:38,696 --> 01:26:42,029 with the even graver mystery that afflicts your abbey. 741 01:26:44,237 --> 01:26:48,612 Lock them up that we may all sleep safely tonight. 742 01:26:59,904 --> 01:27:03,571 You said... You said nothing. 743 01:27:03,737 --> 01:27:06,196 I said nothing... 744 01:27:06,362 --> 01:27:08,571 because there was nothing to be said. 745 01:27:09,987 --> 01:27:12,404 You're ready enough to speak the truth... 746 01:27:12,571 --> 01:27:15,987 when it comes to books and ideas. 747 01:27:16,154 --> 01:27:18,654 She is already burnt flesh, Adso. 748 01:27:18,821 --> 01:27:22,237 Bernardo Gui has spoken. She is a witch. 749 01:27:23,446 --> 01:27:26,487 But that's not true, and you know it. 750 01:27:26,654 --> 01:27:28,821 I know. 751 01:27:29,779 --> 01:27:35,487 I also know that anyone who disputes the verdict of an inquisitor... 752 01:27:35,654 --> 01:27:38,779 is guilty of heresy. 753 01:27:41,529 --> 01:27:44,654 You seem to know a lot about it. 754 01:27:45,654 --> 01:27:48,196 Oh, yes. 755 01:27:51,696 --> 01:27:54,779 Won't you tell me... 756 01:27:56,321 --> 01:27:57,779 as a friend? 757 01:27:58,529 --> 01:28:01,612 Well, there's not much to tell. 758 01:28:03,029 --> 01:28:05,196 I too was an inquisitor... 759 01:28:05,362 --> 01:28:10,987 but in the early days, when the Inquisition strove to guide... 760 01:28:11,154 --> 01:28:13,779 not to punish. 761 01:28:14,862 --> 01:28:18,571 And once I had to preside at the trial of a man... 762 01:28:19,654 --> 01:28:23,821 whose only crime was to have translated a Greek book... 763 01:28:23,987 --> 01:28:27,779 that conflicted with the holy scriptures. 764 01:28:29,446 --> 01:28:34,404 Bernardo Gui wanted him condemned as a heretic. 765 01:28:35,862 --> 01:28:38,821 I acquitted the man. 766 01:28:38,987 --> 01:28:45,404 Then Bernardo Gui accused me of heresy for having defended him. 767 01:28:47,071 --> 01:28:49,612 I appealed to the pope. 768 01:28:50,779 --> 01:28:53,571 I was put in prison... 769 01:28:55,404 --> 01:28:57,862 tortured... 770 01:29:04,862 --> 01:29:08,237 and I recanted. 771 01:29:12,446 --> 01:29:14,821 What happened then? 772 01:29:15,529 --> 01:29:18,612 The man was burned at the stake. 773 01:29:19,404 --> 01:29:22,154 And I am still alive. 774 01:29:46,071 --> 01:29:48,196 Brother Salvatore... 775 01:29:50,862 --> 01:29:54,779 these torments will cause me as much pain as you. 776 01:29:59,362 --> 01:30:02,321 But you can put an end to them before we even begin. 777 01:30:02,487 --> 01:30:06,987 Open the gates of your heart. Search the depths of your soul. 778 01:30:07,154 --> 01:30:08,446 Search. 779 01:30:08,612 --> 01:30:10,112 I search! 780 01:30:11,946 --> 01:30:15,362 I search. I search. 781 01:30:16,154 --> 01:30:17,779 Then tell me... 782 01:30:19,529 --> 01:30:21,654 who, among your brethren... 783 01:30:21,821 --> 01:30:25,821 is the heretic responsible for these murders? 784 01:30:39,821 --> 01:30:41,279 Me don't know nothing. 785 01:30:50,571 --> 01:30:55,612 Did I lie awake that night suffering for the girl or for myself? 786 01:30:55,779 --> 01:30:57,654 I did not know. 787 01:30:57,862 --> 01:31:00,987 With the dawn came the envoys of the pope... 788 01:31:01,154 --> 01:31:05,071 our adversaries in the forthcoming debate. 789 01:31:05,279 --> 01:31:09,112 But it meant so little to me now. 790 01:31:32,196 --> 01:31:35,696 Your Eminence, venerable brothers... 791 01:31:35,862 --> 01:31:39,987 at last we meet for this long-awaited debate. 792 01:31:40,154 --> 01:31:46,154 We have all journeyed great distances in order to put an end to the dispute... 793 01:31:46,362 --> 01:31:52,529 that has so gravely impaired the unity of our Holy Mother Church. 794 01:31:53,362 --> 01:31:56,570 Good people throughout Christendom... 795 01:31:56,737 --> 01:31:59,987 are directing their gaze at these venerable walls... 796 01:32:00,195 --> 01:32:04,570 anxiously awaiting our answer to the vexed question... 797 01:32:05,404 --> 01:32:07,779 Did Christ... 798 01:32:07,945 --> 01:32:10,279 or did he not... 799 01:32:10,445 --> 01:32:13,654 own the clothes that he wore? 800 01:32:23,820 --> 01:32:27,445 Beloved brethren of the Franciscan order. 801 01:32:27,612 --> 01:32:34,320 Our Holy Father, the pope, has authorized me and these, his faithful servants... 802 01:32:34,487 --> 01:32:37,279 to speak on his behalf. 803 01:32:37,487 --> 01:32:41,445 The question is not whether Christ was poor... 804 01:32:41,654 --> 01:32:46,737 but whether the church should be poor. 805 01:32:46,945 --> 01:32:52,404 You Franciscans wish to see the clergy renounce its possessions... 806 01:32:52,612 --> 01:32:55,029 and surrender its riches... 807 01:32:55,237 --> 01:32:58,320 the abbeys dissipate their sacred treasures... 808 01:32:58,487 --> 01:33:01,362 and hand over their fertile acres to the serfs... 809 01:33:01,529 --> 01:33:02,737 I found the book. 810 01:33:03,695 --> 01:33:05,320 I found it in the dispensary. 811 01:33:05,529 --> 01:33:09,362 A book in Greek was hidden behind one of my jars. 812 01:33:09,570 --> 01:33:10,945 Don't touch it. 813 01:33:11,154 --> 01:33:13,529 Return. Lock yourself inside. 814 01:33:13,737 --> 01:33:16,404 I'll be there just as soon as I can. 815 01:33:16,612 --> 01:33:20,237 Thereby depriving the church of the resources needed... 816 01:33:20,404 --> 01:33:25,737 to combat unbelievers and wage war on the infidel. 817 01:33:25,945 --> 01:33:30,529 You forget that even the greatest monument to our Lord... 818 01:33:30,695 --> 01:33:36,070 is but a pale reflection of his infinite majesty and glory... 819 01:33:36,237 --> 01:33:39,695 far outstripping the church... 820 01:35:17,820 --> 01:35:19,112 Quick, Father, quick. 821 01:35:19,279 --> 01:35:22,279 Salvatore has confessed to his radical past, and yours. 822 01:35:22,445 --> 01:35:25,945 You have but little time to escape the flames. 823 01:35:32,737 --> 01:35:34,404 Thank you, brother. 824 01:36:07,862 --> 01:36:11,695 - Where are you going? - Let me go. I'm the cellarer. 825 01:36:11,862 --> 01:36:12,904 Come with us! 826 01:36:13,112 --> 01:36:15,987 You call the pope's brothel God's palace on earth? 827 01:36:16,195 --> 01:36:17,404 Answer that! 828 01:36:17,612 --> 01:36:19,612 They are a sign that reconciliation... 829 01:36:24,529 --> 01:36:28,529 The gospels state categorically that Christ possessed a purse. 830 01:36:28,737 --> 01:36:30,279 That is a lie! You know it! 831 01:36:30,487 --> 01:36:34,279 The Lord commanded his disciples on no less than seven occasions. 832 01:36:34,487 --> 01:36:38,529 - Carry neither gold... - Venerable brothers! 833 01:36:44,195 --> 01:36:47,029 Brethren, if you please! 834 01:36:48,362 --> 01:36:51,445 A matter has occurred of the utmost gravity. 835 01:36:51,612 --> 01:36:54,862 Let me go! I swear, I didn't kill him! 836 01:36:55,029 --> 01:36:57,612 I was at the granary taking the inventory! 837 01:36:57,779 --> 01:37:00,112 I never killed anyone! I swear it! 838 01:37:00,279 --> 01:37:03,362 Then explain to us the purpose of your escape. 839 01:37:05,237 --> 01:37:06,362 I was... 840 01:37:06,529 --> 01:37:09,570 I had already ordered your arrest on other charges. 841 01:37:09,737 --> 01:37:12,529 I see now that I was correct. 842 01:37:13,362 --> 01:37:17,403 Had someone else not chosen to look in the wrong direction... 843 01:37:17,570 --> 01:37:21,403 several men of God might still be with us. 844 01:37:37,237 --> 01:37:40,362 To use vulgar persons. 845 01:37:40,528 --> 01:37:43,653 Take pleasure from their defects. 846 01:37:44,612 --> 01:37:47,320 Please, dear boy. I am trying to think! 847 01:37:47,487 --> 01:37:50,820 So am I, master. So am I! 848 01:37:50,987 --> 01:37:53,945 Then try using your head instead of your heart... 849 01:37:54,112 --> 01:37:56,070 and we might make some progress. 850 01:37:56,278 --> 01:37:59,153 A book's more important than people to you? 851 01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:00,987 Did I say that they were? 852 01:38:01,153 --> 01:38:04,653 You never seem to care about anyone. 853 01:38:04,820 --> 01:38:07,320 Couldn't you at least show a little pity? 854 01:38:12,195 --> 01:38:15,695 Perhaps that is the style of my pity. 855 01:38:17,237 --> 01:38:20,653 But pity won't save her from the fire. 856 01:38:29,362 --> 01:38:35,153 I remind all present that they are bound by their vow of obedience... 857 01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:37,820 and on pain of excommunication... 858 01:38:38,028 --> 01:38:42,820 to aid the inquisitor in his painful struggle against heresy. 859 01:38:42,987 --> 01:38:46,028 To sit with me on this tribunal... 860 01:38:46,195 --> 01:38:48,945 and to share the burden of the verdict... 861 01:38:49,112 --> 01:38:55,778 I will require the counsel of two fellow judges. 862 01:39:06,695 --> 01:39:08,820 My lord abbot... 863 01:39:09,778 --> 01:39:12,070 and... 864 01:39:16,487 --> 01:39:19,278 Brother William of Baskerville. 865 01:39:57,112 --> 01:39:59,612 Salvatore. 866 01:40:01,278 --> 01:40:03,778 Salvatore. 867 01:40:08,487 --> 01:40:10,487 Salvatore... 868 01:40:10,653 --> 01:40:13,653 will you repeat your confession of last night? 869 01:40:14,862 --> 01:40:18,195 That you and your accomplice, Remigio de Varagine... 870 01:40:18,403 --> 01:40:21,278 were members of the heretical Dolcinites? 871 01:40:30,778 --> 01:40:32,445 Thank you. 872 01:40:34,862 --> 01:40:37,028 Thank you. 873 01:40:44,528 --> 01:40:46,570 - You forgive me. - Enough! 874 01:40:49,612 --> 01:40:55,237 Remigio de Varagine, do you deny the confession of your accomplice? 875 01:40:58,070 --> 01:40:59,820 No. 876 01:40:59,987 --> 01:41:02,028 I don't deny it. 877 01:41:03,862 --> 01:41:06,987 I'm proud of it! 878 01:41:08,737 --> 01:41:11,862 For the 12 years I lived here... 879 01:41:12,028 --> 01:41:15,445 I did nothing but stuff my belly... 880 01:41:15,612 --> 01:41:17,278 shag my wick... 881 01:41:17,487 --> 01:41:21,487 and squeeze the hungry peasants for tithes. 882 01:41:21,695 --> 01:41:25,737 But now you have given me the strength... 883 01:41:25,903 --> 01:41:30,820 to remember what I once believed in with all my heart... 884 01:41:30,987 --> 01:41:33,028 and for that, I thank you. 885 01:41:33,237 --> 01:41:37,570 To remember that you wantonly looted and burned the property of the church? 886 01:41:37,737 --> 01:41:40,570 Yes! To give it back to the people... 887 01:41:40,737 --> 01:41:43,237 you stole it from in the first place. 888 01:41:43,403 --> 01:41:46,820 And did you not also slaughter many bishops and priests? 889 01:41:46,987 --> 01:41:48,695 Yes! 890 01:41:48,862 --> 01:41:55,028 And I'd butcher you people if I had half the chance! 891 01:42:02,112 --> 01:42:07,945 Holy Mary, Mother of God, hear my humble prayer. 892 01:42:10,487 --> 01:42:14,070 I know that my sin was very great... 893 01:42:14,903 --> 01:42:16,570 but I beg of you... 894 01:42:16,737 --> 01:42:20,778 do not let her suffer for my wrongdoing. 895 01:42:20,987 --> 01:42:22,945 Blessed Mother... 896 01:42:23,112 --> 01:42:28,028 many years ago, you granted a miracle by saving my master. 897 01:42:28,653 --> 01:42:32,362 Will you not do the same for this girl? 898 01:42:34,028 --> 01:42:39,362 My master says that the simple folk always pay for all. 899 01:42:40,403 --> 01:42:45,820 But please, Holy Mother, do not let it be so. 900 01:42:47,737 --> 01:42:50,653 Guilty is that witch... 901 01:42:51,528 --> 01:42:54,820 who has seduced a monk... 902 01:42:54,986 --> 01:42:59,195 and has practiced her diabolical ritual within this hallowed place. 903 01:43:01,778 --> 01:43:04,653 Guilty is Salvatore... 904 01:43:05,070 --> 01:43:07,653 who has confessed to his heretical past... 905 01:43:07,820 --> 01:43:11,486 and was caught in flagrante delicto with a witch! 906 01:43:11,695 --> 01:43:15,778 Guilty is Remigio de Varagine... 907 01:43:15,986 --> 01:43:19,195 who, in addition to being unrepentant of his heresies... 908 01:43:19,361 --> 01:43:22,903 was caught attempting to escape after murdering Severinus. 909 01:43:23,111 --> 01:43:24,403 That's a lie! 910 01:43:24,570 --> 01:43:28,236 I never killed the herbalist or anyone else in this abbey! 911 01:43:28,445 --> 01:43:30,736 I therefore request you... 912 01:43:30,903 --> 01:43:34,653 to confirm my sentence, my lord abbot. 913 01:43:39,361 --> 01:43:43,278 My heart is filled with sorrow... 914 01:43:43,945 --> 01:43:47,028 but I can find no reason to contest... 915 01:43:47,195 --> 01:43:50,736 the just sentence of the Holy Inquisition. 916 01:43:52,528 --> 01:43:56,195 And you, William of Baskerville? 917 01:44:02,903 --> 01:44:04,528 Yes. 918 01:44:04,695 --> 01:44:06,611 He is guilty. 919 01:44:06,945 --> 01:44:09,611 Guilty of having, in his youth... 920 01:44:10,028 --> 01:44:13,486 misinterpreted the message of the gospels. 921 01:44:14,570 --> 01:44:18,736 And he is guilty of having confused... 922 01:44:18,903 --> 01:44:24,111 the love of poverty with the blind destruction of wealth and property. 923 01:44:26,695 --> 01:44:31,195 But, my lord abbot, he is innocent of the crimes... 924 01:44:31,361 --> 01:44:33,986 that have bathed your abbey in blood. 925 01:44:36,486 --> 01:44:40,070 For Brother Remigio cannot read Greek. 926 01:44:40,278 --> 01:44:42,403 And this entire mystery... 927 01:44:42,570 --> 01:44:46,320 hinges on the theft and possession of a book written in Greek... 928 01:44:46,486 --> 01:44:49,153 and hidden in some secret part of the library. 929 01:44:50,403 --> 01:44:53,861 Since the verdict of the Inquisition has been disputed... 930 01:44:54,028 --> 01:44:57,695 we are obliged to extract the prisoner's confession to murder. 931 01:44:57,903 --> 01:45:00,820 Take him to the forge and show him the instruments. 932 01:45:02,195 --> 01:45:05,445 I'll confess anything you want... 933 01:45:05,653 --> 01:45:07,736 but don't torture me. 934 01:45:07,903 --> 01:45:10,486 I can't live through it, not like Salvatore. 935 01:45:10,653 --> 01:45:12,403 Very well. 936 01:45:12,736 --> 01:45:14,111 Why did you kill them? 937 01:45:16,070 --> 01:45:17,528 Why? 938 01:45:17,695 --> 01:45:21,653 I don't know why. 939 01:45:23,153 --> 01:45:26,570 - Because you were inspired by the devil? - Yes. 940 01:45:26,736 --> 01:45:30,236 That's it. I was inspired by the devil. 941 01:45:30,403 --> 01:45:34,653 I am inspired by the devil! 942 01:45:35,611 --> 01:45:40,820 Adrammelech, Lucifer, I summon you, lords of hell! 943 01:45:41,028 --> 01:45:42,986 Alastor! 944 01:45:43,736 --> 01:45:45,153 Azazel! 945 01:45:46,736 --> 01:45:49,528 The shepherd has done his duty... 946 01:45:49,695 --> 01:45:54,403 and the infected sheep must now be consigned to the purifying flame. 947 01:45:54,570 --> 01:45:56,986 You may burn Brother Remigio... 948 01:45:57,195 --> 01:46:01,528 but you will not stop the crimes being committed in this abbey. 949 01:46:01,695 --> 01:46:04,153 Other monks will meet their deaths here... 950 01:46:04,320 --> 01:46:07,195 and they also will have blackened fingers... 951 01:46:07,361 --> 01:46:09,070 and blackened tongues! 952 01:46:10,320 --> 01:46:11,945 Your Eminence, I beg of you. 953 01:46:12,111 --> 01:46:15,278 We Franciscans are appalled by Brother William's outburst. 954 01:46:15,486 --> 01:46:17,903 Again, we have seen that your theories... 955 01:46:18,070 --> 01:46:20,236 protect heretics and lead to murder. 956 01:46:20,445 --> 01:46:22,236 - The debate is concluded. - No. 957 01:46:22,403 --> 01:46:26,486 It seems Brother William of Baskerville has relapsed... 958 01:46:27,486 --> 01:46:30,986 into the errors of which he was formerly purged. 959 01:46:31,153 --> 01:46:34,986 Having sought yet again to shield a heretic... 960 01:46:35,153 --> 01:46:38,195 from just punishment by the Inquisition... 961 01:46:38,361 --> 01:46:42,111 he will accompany me to Avignon for confirmation of my sentence... 962 01:46:42,278 --> 01:46:44,403 by His Holiness Pope John. 963 01:46:59,695 --> 01:47:01,445 I'm right. 964 01:47:03,320 --> 01:47:08,528 If only I could find the book and prove that Bernardo Gui was wrong. 965 01:47:08,695 --> 01:47:12,611 But the Antichrist was victorious once more... 966 01:47:12,778 --> 01:47:17,070 and nothing seemed to be able to hinder him further. 967 01:47:23,695 --> 01:47:26,153 Come. 968 01:47:55,653 --> 01:47:58,778 When the pyres are lighted tonight... 969 01:47:58,945 --> 01:48:04,945 let the flames purify each of us in his own heart. 970 01:48:05,153 --> 01:48:11,278 Let us return to what was and ever should be the office of this abbey. 971 01:48:11,445 --> 01:48:13,903 The preservation of knowledge. 972 01:48:14,111 --> 01:48:19,653 Preservation, I say, not search for. 973 01:48:19,861 --> 01:48:24,528 Because there is no progress in the history of knowledge... 974 01:48:24,695 --> 01:48:29,986 merely a continuous and sublime recapitulation. 975 01:48:30,611 --> 01:48:33,361 Let us now praise the Almighty... 976 01:48:33,528 --> 01:48:38,111 that the bloody-eyed and cloven-hoofed Antichrist... 977 01:48:38,278 --> 01:48:42,319 has been purged from our sacred precincts... 978 01:48:42,486 --> 01:48:47,694 and our monastery has returned to peace. 979 01:48:57,153 --> 01:49:01,736 It had the power of 1000 scorpions! He told me. 980 01:49:01,903 --> 01:49:03,903 Who told you? His tongue is black! 981 01:49:04,069 --> 01:49:05,986 His fingers as black as pitch... 982 01:49:06,194 --> 01:49:09,361 - just as Brother William foretold. - Adso! 983 01:49:23,111 --> 01:49:25,069 - It's Brother Malachia. - Malachia? 984 01:49:25,236 --> 01:49:27,736 - Yes, Father, yes. - Dear God. 985 01:49:27,903 --> 01:49:29,903 Not Malachia! 986 01:49:30,403 --> 01:49:33,111 Will it never end? 987 01:49:33,736 --> 01:49:35,653 Malachia. 988 01:49:43,528 --> 01:49:46,153 Bernardo, William of Baskerville was right. 989 01:49:46,361 --> 01:49:49,028 - He said that... - Yes! He knew. 990 01:49:49,653 --> 01:49:53,361 Just as I, too, would have known, had I been the murderer. 991 01:49:53,528 --> 01:49:55,778 Find William of Baskerville. 992 01:49:56,153 --> 01:49:57,736 We still can't open the mirror! 993 01:49:57,903 --> 01:50:01,236 Perhaps by pressing the first and seventh letters of four. 994 01:50:01,403 --> 01:50:03,778 - Four only has four letters! - In Latin. 995 01:50:03,944 --> 01:50:06,778 Quatuor, remember? The inscription above the mirror? 996 01:50:06,944 --> 01:50:09,194 But we have to press above an idol. 997 01:50:09,361 --> 01:50:12,819 Not idolum, as in the Latin, but eidolon, as in the Greek. 998 01:50:13,028 --> 01:50:17,111 Meaning image or reflection. Our reflection. 999 01:50:20,278 --> 01:50:23,944 - This way, master. - No, this way, Adso. 1000 01:51:12,861 --> 01:51:15,403 Here, Q. Q and R. 1001 01:51:16,569 --> 01:51:19,153 Pray God we're not mistaken. 1002 01:51:30,111 --> 01:51:32,069 Come. 1003 01:51:57,694 --> 01:52:00,319 Good evening, Venerable Jorge. 1004 01:52:07,069 --> 01:52:11,736 I have been expecting you these several days past, William. 1005 01:52:11,944 --> 01:52:15,653 You must have flown to this chamber to have reached it ahead of us. 1006 01:52:15,819 --> 01:52:21,028 You have discovered many things since your arrival at this abbey... 1007 01:52:21,194 --> 01:52:26,236 but the short route through the labyrinth is not among them. 1008 01:52:26,694 --> 01:52:30,486 So now, what is it that you want? 1009 01:52:32,153 --> 01:52:36,486 I want to see the book in Greek that you said was never written. 1010 01:52:36,653 --> 01:52:39,861 A book entirely devoted to comedy... 1011 01:52:40,028 --> 01:52:43,944 which you hate as much as you hate laughter. 1012 01:52:45,819 --> 01:52:50,819 I want to see what is probably the sole surviving copy... 1013 01:52:51,653 --> 01:52:54,361 of the second book of the Poetics of Aristotle. 1014 01:52:54,778 --> 01:53:01,028 William, what a magnificent librarian you would have been. 1015 01:53:01,694 --> 01:53:05,361 Here is your well-earned reward. 1016 01:53:07,486 --> 01:53:08,986 Read it. 1017 01:53:09,153 --> 01:53:11,736 Leaf through its secrets. 1018 01:53:15,653 --> 01:53:17,694 You have won. 1019 01:53:26,861 --> 01:53:28,111 Close, now! 1020 01:53:46,111 --> 01:53:48,486 We shall now discuss the way comedy... 1021 01:53:48,653 --> 01:53:50,944 stimulates our delight in the ridiculous... 1022 01:53:51,111 --> 01:53:55,277 by using vulgar persons and taking pleasure from their defects. 1023 01:53:58,236 --> 01:54:00,694 Carry on, William. Read it, read it! 1024 01:54:01,027 --> 01:54:03,444 Master, please, we must hurry. 1025 01:54:03,611 --> 01:54:05,736 If the light is too dim for you... 1026 01:54:06,111 --> 01:54:08,611 give it to the boy. I'm sure he can read it. 1027 01:54:08,819 --> 01:54:14,111 I would not want my faithful pupil to turn your poisoned pages. 1028 01:54:14,277 --> 01:54:18,736 Not without the protection of a glove, such as I am wearing. 1029 01:54:24,402 --> 01:54:27,444 The door, quick! Before he shuts us in! 1030 01:54:31,027 --> 01:54:32,902 Push! 1031 01:54:38,861 --> 01:54:40,902 Stay, stay! 1032 01:55:07,486 --> 01:55:12,236 Venerable brother, there are many books that speak of comedy. 1033 01:55:12,402 --> 01:55:15,277 Why does this one fill you with such fear? 1034 01:55:15,444 --> 01:55:19,527 - Because it is by Aristotle. - Adso, this way. 1035 01:55:45,611 --> 01:55:49,652 Do you, Salvatore, renounce the devil and embrace Jesus Christ... 1036 01:55:49,861 --> 01:55:51,402 as your lord and savior? 1037 01:56:01,361 --> 01:56:04,194 Do you, Remigio de Varagine, renounce the devil... 1038 01:56:04,361 --> 01:56:06,861 - and embrace Jesus Christ...? - What for? 1039 01:56:07,069 --> 01:56:11,652 It's better to die fast than to spend the rest of your life in a prison! 1040 01:56:11,861 --> 01:56:16,861 The devil I renounce is you, Bernardo Gui! 1041 01:56:21,319 --> 01:56:25,402 Do you renounce the devil and embrace Jesus Christ as your savior? 1042 01:56:31,152 --> 01:56:35,027 But what is so alarming about laughter? 1043 01:56:35,194 --> 01:56:37,361 Laughter kills fear. 1044 01:56:37,527 --> 01:56:40,569 And without fear, there can be no faith. 1045 01:56:41,111 --> 01:56:46,652 Because without fear of the devil, there is no more need of God. 1046 01:56:47,819 --> 01:56:52,527 But you will not eliminate laughter by eliminating that book. 1047 01:56:53,027 --> 01:56:55,611 No, to be sure. 1048 01:56:55,819 --> 01:56:58,902 Laughter will remain the common man's recreation. 1049 01:56:59,069 --> 01:57:02,819 But what will happen if, because of this book... 1050 01:57:02,986 --> 01:57:09,194 learned men were to pronounce it permissible to laugh at everything? 1051 01:57:09,361 --> 01:57:11,361 Can we laugh at God? 1052 01:57:11,527 --> 01:57:15,319 The world would relapse into chaos. 1053 01:57:15,527 --> 01:57:21,277 Therefore, I seal that which was not to be said... 1054 01:57:22,111 --> 01:57:24,819 and the tomb I become. 1055 01:57:30,194 --> 01:57:32,736 That's him! He was there, behind the arch! 1056 02:00:06,527 --> 02:00:07,860 Adso! 1057 02:00:08,069 --> 02:00:09,277 Adso! 1058 02:00:13,069 --> 02:00:14,319 Adso! 1059 02:00:14,527 --> 02:00:17,485 - Master! - Go on! I insist! 1060 02:00:22,485 --> 02:00:25,194 Leave this place at once! I insist! 1061 02:00:28,944 --> 02:00:31,569 Please, God, save him. 1062 02:00:43,402 --> 02:00:44,819 Hold them back. 1063 02:00:45,902 --> 02:00:47,777 Burn the witch! 1064 02:00:54,235 --> 02:00:56,527 You dare raise your hands to the church? 1065 02:00:57,819 --> 02:00:59,277 Come! 1066 02:02:16,985 --> 02:02:19,110 No! You're not going to leave! 1067 02:02:19,319 --> 02:02:21,235 All of this is your doing! 1068 02:02:21,444 --> 02:02:23,944 My master found the true murderer! 1069 02:02:51,527 --> 02:02:53,235 Help me. Quick! 1070 02:02:53,944 --> 02:02:55,444 Help me! 1071 02:02:55,652 --> 02:02:57,944 Help me! No! 1072 02:02:58,152 --> 02:03:00,194 No, no! 1073 02:03:42,027 --> 02:03:44,360 Master. 1074 02:03:45,944 --> 02:03:47,610 Adso! 1075 02:06:54,777 --> 02:06:57,735 I have never regretted my decision... 1076 02:06:57,902 --> 02:07:04,402 for I learned from my master much that was wise and good and true. 1077 02:07:04,568 --> 02:07:08,568 When at last we parted company, he presented me with his eyeglasses. 1078 02:07:08,735 --> 02:07:13,152 I was still young, he said, but someday they would serve me well. 1079 02:07:13,318 --> 02:07:18,985 And, in fact, I am wearing them now on my nose as I write these lines. 1080 02:07:19,152 --> 02:07:24,860 Then he embraced me fondly, like a father, and sent me on my way. 1081 02:07:25,027 --> 02:07:28,568 I never saw him again and know not what became of him... 1082 02:07:28,735 --> 02:07:32,402 but I pray always that God received his soul and forgave... 1083 02:07:32,568 --> 02:07:37,902 the many little vanities to which he was driven by his intellectual pride. 1084 02:07:38,402 --> 02:07:43,318 And yet, now that I am an old, old man... 1085 02:07:43,485 --> 02:07:48,360 I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past... 1086 02:07:48,527 --> 02:07:52,110 the one I see most clearly is that of the girl... 1087 02:07:52,277 --> 02:07:58,735 of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. 1088 02:07:58,902 --> 02:08:02,610 She was the only earthly love of my life... 1089 02:08:02,902 --> 02:08:09,598 yet I never knew nor ever learned her name.