[PW] Re: Nature quote

[Jeanne Schramm]

Dante said the following on the subject of art and nature and God. ( Perhaps
it has been
confused with the Browne quote): "Art, as far as it is able, follows nature,
as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's
grandchild."  Inferno (XI, 103)
Jeanne Schramm, WLSC, W. Liberty, WV  26074

On 11/20/06, Chris Corston <cfcorston at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> This is for me. I bought a gift for my niece with the quote "Nature is the
> art of God" , attributed to Dante. I thought I would like to find where in
> Dante and give her some more of the passage it came from. Then the fun
> began. My Bartlett's (fifteenth ed.) and Penguin Dictionary of Quoatations
> both give  Sir Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici" as the source of the
> quote,
> and nothing resembling it from Dante. A trip around Google comes up about
> 50/50 for Dante (but with no specific citatation) and Browne, and a few
> others in slight variations on the theme. (One site even attributes it to
> Ralph Waldo Emerson.) I am thinking the Dante thing may be one of those
> "attributed to" that can't be traced, but on the other hand it isn't
> impossible that he might have said something like "Nature is the art of
> God". Anyone got anything with an actual citation for Dante on this?
> TIA
> Chris Corston
> Dartmouth
> Nova Scotia
>
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