Her son, Giovanni Battista Andreini, himself an actor and voluminous play–wright, has collected an entire volume entitled "Apollo's Lament," composed of the pieces of poetry by his mother's contemporaries, written in her praise. Another numerous selection of such tributes from most of the leading literary men and women of that day written on the occasion of her death, is prefixed to a volume of her poetry, printed at Milan in 1605.
Having acted with the greatest applause before most of the Italian courts, we find that she passed with her husband's company of players into France, where the "Gelosi" enjoyed under the patronage of the French court a very high reputation, until Isabella's death deprived them of their principal support and attraction. A letter from Henry IV. is recorded,[139] in which he addresses her in the most flattering and at the same time respectful terms.
A fine medal, not unfrequently met with in the cabinets of collectors, was struck in her honour, having on the obverse her portrait, with the words "D. Isabella Andreini, C. G."—Comica Gelosa, that is to say; and on the reverse a full length figure of Fame with the legend "Æterna fama."
The celebrated Ericio Puteano wrote the following inscription for her portrait.
"Hanc vides, et hanc audis;
Tu disputa, Argus esse malis ut videas
An Midas, ut audias.
Tantum enim sermonem vultus
Quantum sermo vultum commendat;
Quorum alterutro æterna esse potuisset,
Cum vultum omnibus simulacris emendatiorem
Et sermonem omni Suada venustiorem possideat."