Carlo Milanuzzi was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period.
Carlo Milanuzzi was born in Santa Natoglia or Esanatoglia in the Marches in the area around Milanuzzo and Donna Felice probably around 1590 but not after 1592, the date on which the baptismal registers of the city were first published. He spent most of his life in Venice. Although he was an Augustinian monk, he composed both sacred and secular music and his work is very interesting. As Dinko Fabris wrote: "The collections of Ariose vaghezze, published by Milanuzzi in Venice between 1622 and 1643 were a veritable mountain of arias and proto cantates that had numerous affinities with falconers"; many dances are included in the collections,and many of them are for Spanish guitar. For example, Milanuzzi's "third joke of breezy vagueness" contains 12 ballets for solo parts and continuo and only 7 for guitar.
Two short arias by Francesco Monteverdi, elder son of Claudio Monteverdi, survive in Milanuzzi's "Fourth Trick of the Breezy Vagueness".
Milanuzzi died perhaps around 1647, the date of his last work, the Compieta intiera which included the antiphons and litany of the Virgin Mother of God.
