On Jan 5, 2020, at 5:19 PM, Antonio Corona <abcor...@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Luis Milán, Libro de motes (1535): Don Luys Milan > > Luis Milán, El Maestro (1535-36): Luys Milan > > Luis Milán, El cortesano (1561): Don Luys Milan > > Juan Fernández de Heredia, Las obras ... (1562): Don Luys Milan > > Gaspar Gil Polo, Diana enamorada (1564): Don Luys Milan So we can be fairly sure he wasn’t trying to escape creditors. A couple of points relating to the underlying question: Even if Milan’s family name came from the Italian city, it doesn’t mean he he had any practical ties to Italy. I speak as someone whose name means “from Posen” (or Poznan, when, as now, the city is within Poland), and I couldn’t tell you the first thing about the place (or maybe I just did, and I couldn’t tell the second thing about it), and I think many of you would find my ignorance about all things Polish truly impressive if I chose to display it. For all I know my ancestors were there as recently as 1900. And wouldn’t a Milanese refer to the city as Milano? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
