[PW] Nature quote

[Chris Corston]

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