Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana (12 November 1648, San Miguel Nepantla, New Spain - 17 April 1695, Mexico, New Spain), better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a writer and Catholic nun in New Spain. She was in the Catholic Order of Saint Jerome. She was a well known writer of the Spanish Golden Age of the literature in Spanish.

Juana Inés de la Cruz
Born	San Miguel Nepantla
Died	Mexico City
Occupation	author

Second volume of the works of sóror Juana Inés de la Cruz, monk profesa in the monastery of the Saint gentleman Jeronimo of the City of Mexico, devoted by the author to D. Juan of Orúe and Orbieto, knight of the Order of Santiago. Seville, Tomás López of Haro, 1692.

Early life

Juana was born in San Miguel Nepantla in Tepetlixpa municipality as the illegitimate daughter of Don Pedro Manuel de Asuaje y Vargas-Machuca, a Spanish navy captain from the Canary Islands involved in colonial transatlantic shipping and trade, and Doña Isabel Ramírez de Santillana y Rendón, a distinguished criolla, whose father leased the Hacienda de Panoaya, in Amecameca.

Works

• La segunda Celestina
• Los empeños de una Casa
• 1676 - Villancicos, que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico. En los maitines de la Purissima Concepcion de Nuestra Señora
• 1689 - Inundacion castalida. Madrid: Juan Garcia Infanson
• 1693 - Segundo tomo de las obras de soror Juana Inés de la Cruz, monja professa en el monasterio del Señor San Geronimo de la ciudad de Mexico. Barcelona: Joseph Llopis
• 1701 - Fama, y obras posthumas, tomo tercero, del fenix de México, y dezima musa, poetisa de la America, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el Convento de San Geronimo, de la imperial ciudad de Mexico. Barcelona: Rafael Figuerò
• 1709 - Poemas de la unica poetisa americana, musa dezima, soror Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el monasterio de San Germonimo de la imperial ciudad de Mexico. Valencia: Antonio Bordazar

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• New Spain