Like an air of the
Name of the Rose
slipped in the spring on the alcoves of the Sorbonne, in the rooms of the Léon-Robin Center for research on ancient thought, where words of classical letters and philosophy are whispered.
It emanated from the study of a voluminous codex usually kept in the Chapter Library of Verona.
This tome dated from the 9th century was altered, the last third of the volume as if eaten by canker: impenetrable areas of blackness waltzed with the Moral Lessons taken from the
Book of Job
, by Gregory the Great.
Improperly treated in the 19th century with corrosive dyes supposed to make the hundred or so palimpsest folios of the volume readable, the XL codex (38) slowly withered away, its pages consumed by an irreversible acidity.
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