Adso: "And what was the word you both kept mentioning?"
William: "Penitenziagite."
Adso: "What does it mean?"
William: "It means that the hunchback undoubtedly was once a heretic. Penitenziagite was a rallying cry of the dolcinites."
Adso: "Dolcinites? Who were they, master?"
William: "Those who believed in the poverty of Christ."
Adso: "So do we Franciscans."
William: "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: "Well, then, could he not have killed the translator?"
William: "No. No, fat bishops and wealthy priests were more to the taste of the dolcinites, hardly a specialist of Aristotle."