Warriors, statesmen, orators, patriots, poets, and artists--all have been, more or less unconsciously, nurtured by the lives and actions of others living before them or presented for their imitation.
Great men have evoked the admiration of kings, popes, and emperors.
Francis de Medicis never spoke to Michael Angelo without uncovering, and Julius III.

made him sit by his side while a dozen cardinals were standing.

Charles V.made way for Titian; and one day, when the brush dropped from the painter's hand, Charles stooped and picked it up, saying, "You deserve to be served by an emperor." Leo X.threatened with excommunication whoever should print and sell the poems of Ariosto without the author's consent.

The same pope attended the deathbed of Raphael, as Francis I.did that of Leonardo da Vinci.
Though Haydn once archly observed that he was loved and esteemed by everybody except professors of music, yet all the greatest musicians were unusually ready to recognise each other's greatness.

Haydn himself seems to have been entirely free from petty jealousy.