title: DSST Art of the Western World (Passbooks) (DANTES SUBJECT STANDARDIZED TESTS (DANTES))
author: Jack Rudman
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  # Dante: The Central Man of All the World
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John T. Slattery
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  DANTE AND HIS TIME
  
  
  DANTE THE MAN
  
  
  DANTE'S INFERNO
  
  
  DANTE'S PURGATORIO
  
  
  DANTE'S PARADISO
  
  
  
  
  
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      Dante: “The Central Man of All the World"
  
  
  A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York
  
  
  State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
  
  
  
  
      
  
  E-text prepared by David Garcia, Bethanne M. Simms, and the
  
  
  Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/)
  
  
  DANTE: “THE CENTRAL MAN OF ALL THE WORLD.”
  
  
  A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New
  
  
  York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
  
  
  by
  
  
  JOHN T. SLATTERY, Ph.D.
  
  
  With a Preface by John H. Finley, L.H.D.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  New York P. J. Kenedy &Sons 1920 Copyright, 1920, by P. J. Kenedy
  
  
  &Sons, New York Printed in U.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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