1:00:00
brother Berengar,
the assistant librarian.
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Now what kind of secret knowledge
would he have been privy to?
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- I feel you're about to tell me.
- Books. Restricted books.
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Spiritually dangerous books.
1:00:18
Everyone here knew of
the assistant's passion...
1:00:21
for handsome boys.
When the beautiful Adelmo...
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wanted to read such a
forbidden book...
1:00:25
Berengar offered him the
key to its whereabouts...
1:00:29
enciphered on that parchment...
1:00:33
in exchange for unnatural caresses.
1:00:36
Enough, brother William!
1:00:38
Adelmo submitted to
Berengar's lustful advances.
1:00:42
But afterwards, wracked by remorse,
he wandered desperate...
1:00:45
in the graveyard, where
he met the Greek translator.
1:00:49
- How could you know this?
- There was a witness.
1:00:52
The hunchback.
1:00:54
Who saw Adelmo giving
this parchment to Venantius...
1:00:59
and running towards
the small tower...
1:01:01
and hurling himself
out of the window.
1:01:04
The night of my arrival, while
Berengar punished his sinful flesh...
1:01:08
Venantius, following
the instructions on the parchment...
1:01:11
entered the forbidden library
and found the book.
1:01:15
He took it back to his desk
and began to read it.
1:01:20
After scribbling down
those mysterious quotations...
1:01:23
he died with a black stain
on his finger.
1:01:26
The assistant discovered the body...
1:01:29
and dragged it down to the pigpen
to avert suspicion falling on him.
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But he left his autograph behind.
1:01:38
The book remained
on the translator's desk.
1:01:40
Berengar returned there
last night and read it.
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Soon after, overcome
by some agonizing pain...
1:01:48
he tried to take a soothing bath
with lime leaves...
1:01:51
and drowned.
1:01:53
He too had a blackened finger.
1:01:55
All three died because
of a book which kills...
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or for which men will kill.