It is worthy of remark that he designates his pretty villa at Arcetri as his prison; probably because he was forbidden to extend his walks beyond the convent of San Matteo.
APPENDIX
TO THE NOTICE ON WILLIAM TELL.
The following Tellenlied is the most ancient known, and has been printed in the collection of M. Rochholz: Eidgenössische Liederchronik, p. 206.
In the course of time, this ballad has been often altered in its details; but we give here one of the old forms in which it was written.
To complete the picture of William Tell’s legend, we have added the celebrated ballad on the death of Tell, by the great poet Uhland who, by this poem, say the Germans:
Exegit monumentum ære perennius.
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