William: "I too was an Inquisitor, but in the early days, when the Inquisition strove to guide, not to punish. And once I had to preside at a trial of a man whose only crime was to have translated a Greek book that conflicted with the Holy Scriptures. Bernardo Gui wanted him condemned as a heretic; I... acquitted the man. Then Bernardo Gui accused me of heresy, for having defended him. I appealed to the Pope. I... I was put in prison, tortured, and... and I recanted."
Adso: "What happened then?"
William: "The man was burned at the stake and I am still alive."