I will eviscerate you in fiction!

Dante and Virgil on their sightseeing tour of Hell, The Morgan Library, MS M.676 fol. 28r (c. 1345 AD)

There's a scene in the movie 'A knight's Tale' where a Geoffrey Chaucer played by Paul Bettany confronts Simon the Summoner and Peter the Pardoner to whom Chaucer had lost his clothes through gambling. The author of the Canterbury Tales execrates the tw…