achille bocchi emblem 114 nude

In this way, gunpowder was invented. A spark, though small, often produces a great fire.

Emblem CXIIII, in Achille Bocchi (1488-1562), Symbolicarum Quaestionum de Universo Genere (Bologna, 1574).
 

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