<Li> In the novel The Tenth Circle (2006) by Jodi Picoult, the main character's comic strip, The Tenth Circle, is based on the Inferno </Li> <Li> Dante himself is a character in The Master of Verona (2007), a novel by David Blixt that combines the people of Dante's time with the characters of Shakespeare's Italian plays . </Li> <Li> Robert Penn Warren references Dante's Divine Comedy on the opening page of his novel All the King's Men with a line from Purgatory, III: Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde, meaning "As long as hope still has its bit of green ." </Li> <Li> Paul Thigpen ′ s novel My Visit to Hell is an "extended parable" about hell in which he borrows "the moral topography of...Dante ′ s' Inferno ."' It is an adaptation of his earlier novel, Gehenna, published in 1992, and what Thigpen refers to as "the latest addition to a genre of such literature known as' tours of hell ."' His contemporary interpretation produces more impact with its explicit references to historical figures and issues reflective of today's culture . </Li>

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