Although nobody has proved it by documentary evidence, critics usually date Montemayor's death in February 1561 in Piemonte. In parallel, the undated Milan edition of La Diana, printed during the author's lifetime with his participation, is usually dated in 1560. However, the textual evidence that this edition derives from the one printed in Barcelona, 1561 (colophon: January 21) makes it impossible to sustain that the writer died on the date usually accepted. We must think, rather, that this Diana was printed at the end of 1561 or the beginning of 1562, and that the writer probably died in February, but in 1562, rather than in 1561.