A fictionalised Gui features as a secondary antagonist in the best-selling 1980 historical novel "The Name of the Rose" ("Il nome della rosa") by Italian scholar and cultural critic Umberto Eco; the book has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold over ten million copies. Gui was portrayed by American actor F. Murray Abraham in the 1986 film adaptation, and by British actor Rupert Everett in an eight-part 2019 television adaptation. The character has been widely criticised by historians as historically inaccurate. Edward Peters has stated that the character is "rather more sinister and notorious ... than ever was historically", and John Aberth has branded the depiction of Gui as a "pyromaniac madman" as a "horrible distortion of history"; they and others have argued that the character resembles more closely the grotesque caricatures of Catholic inquisitors and prelates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, such as Matthew Gregory Lewis's "The Monk" (1796), than the historical Gui.'"