A great flame follows a little spark.

Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda.

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dante. Paradiso. The Divine Comedy. c. 1320, canto 12, l. 95-96.

Current Citation

Dante. "Paradiso." The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum. Everyman's Library, 1995, canto 1, l. 34.