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.


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

 Related pages 
 New Spain

References

Category:1648 births
Category:Mexican poets
Category:Writers from Mexico (state)
Category:Nahuatl language
Category:Mexican people of Spanish descent