Unpublished Poems of the Vihuelist and Writer Luis Milán and New Considerations about his Identity: the MS 2050 of the Biblioteca de Catalunya

Abstract

In the MS 2050 of the Library of Catalunya is preserved, under the title of Proçeso de coplas de burlas que pasaron entre don Luis del Milán, el músico, y don Joan Fernández, the most complete set of poems of the known dispute between the vihuelist and writer Luis Milán and the poet Juan Fernández de Heredia. However, this source hasn’t been considered in the editions of the works of both authors and, as a result, plenty of the compositions are still unpublished. From the texts of some of these poems and their interesting headings, the question of the identity of Milán is discussed in detail here. The main conclusion is the need of considering the revision of the identification of this author with Lluís del Milà i Eixarch, that is nowadays widely accepted. As an appendix to this article, an annotated edition of the Proceso is offered.