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Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [a] OSH (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), [1] was a New Spain (considered Mexican by many authors) [2] writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. [1]
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Baroque music composer, philosopher and poet, portrait by Miguel Cabrera. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651 - 1695), known as the "Tenth Muse", was born on 12 November 1651 in San Miguel Nepantla and died in Mexico City on April 17, 1695. She was one of the greatest writers during the Golden Age. Her passion for ...
Sor Juana agrees. A political enemy of the Archbishop's encourages Sor Juana to write a rebuttal to one of the favourite theologians of the Archbishop. Sor Juana obliges believing the paper is for private circulation. However the work is published along with an attack on Sor Juana condemning her entire oeuvre. In Spain the first volume of Sor ...
Sor Juana compares the new Viceroy with Neptune and his wife, Maria Luisa, with Amphitrite, the goddess of the sea. The only son of María Luisa, José María de la Cerda y Manrique de Lara was born on July 5, 1683, and Sor Juana also dedicated poems to the event. [ 4 ]
This is a list of women writers who were born in Mexico or whose writings are closely associated with that country. ... Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), ...
He was born in Mexico city and died in Puebla. He wrote Canción al amor divino and Canción al santísimo nombre de Jesús. Juan de Guevara, was born in Mexico, was an acclaimed lyric poet. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581–1639). Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695). Miguel de Guevara (c. 1586 – after 1646).
Sor Juana's Jeronymite order had only 3 houses. [52] [53] The largest concentration of convents was in the capital, Mexico City, with 11 built between 1540 and 1630, and, by 1780 another 10 for a total of 21. [54] These institutions were designed for the daughters of elites, with individual living quarters not only for the nuns, but also their ...
Her published work includes Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text where she identifies de la Cruz's life and work as a precursor to current ecofeminist theologies. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This book is the basis for her 2019 Ted-Ed Animation entitled History’s Worst Nun documenting the details of 17th century Mexican ...