I will content myself with saying here that praises of M. de La Trappe were so much the more great and prolonged because the King eulogised him in public; that he wished to see narrations of his death; and that he spoke more than once of it to his grandsons by way of instruction.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete"
Duc de Saint-Simon
Ariosto himself eulogised him among a shoal of writers, half of whose names have perished; and who most likely included in that half the men who thought he did not praise them enough.
"Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2"
Leigh Hunt