Der Name der Rose1986

Adso of Melk:
And what was the word you both kept mentioning?

William of Baskerville:
Penitenziagite.

Adso of Melk:
What does it mean?

William of Baskerville:
It means that the hunchback undoubtedly was once a heretic. Penitenziagite was a rallying cry of the dolcinites.

Adso of Melk:
Dolcinites? Who were they, master?

William of Baskerville:
Those who believed in the poverty of Christ.

Adso of Melk:
So do we Franciscans.

William of Baskerville:
But they also declared that everyone must be poor, so they slaughtered the rich. Ha! You see, Adso, the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

Adso of Melk:
[looking at the Hunchback] Well, then, could he not have killed the translator?

William of Baskerville:
No. No, fat bishops and wealthy priests were more to the taste of the dolcinites, hardly a specialist of Aristotle.