Gulielm. Appulus, l. ii. c 12, according to the reference of Giannone, (Istoria Civile di Napoli, tom. ii. p. 31,) which I cannot verify in the original. The Apulian praises indeed his validas vires, probitas animi, and vivida virtus; and declares that, had he lived, no poet could have equalled his merits, (l. i. p. 258, l. ii. p. 259.) He was bewailed by the Normans,
quippe qui tanti
consilii virum, (says Malaterra, l. i. c. 12, p. 552,)
tam armis strenuum, tam sibi munificum, affabilem, morigeratum,
ulterius se habere diffidebant.