SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ

The poetess Juana Ines de Asbaje is born in San Miguel de Nepantla, present Mexico in 1651 and dies in the City of Mexico in 1695. Was the greater figure of the Hispano-American letters of century XVII. Young prodigy, learned to read and to write to the three years, and to the eight loa wrote her first. Admired by her talent and premature, at fourteen she was lady of honor of Leonor Carreto, wife of the virrey Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored person by the Marquesses of Mancera, shone in the virreinal cut of the New Spain by her erudition and ability. Despite at the fame which enjoyed, in 1667 entered a convent of Carmelite the barefoot ones of Mexico and remained in her four months, after which she left it by health problems.

 Two years later entered a convent of the Order of San Jerónimo, this time definitively. Given her little religious vocation, it seems that sister Juana Ines de la Cruz preferred the convent to the marriage to continue enjoying her intellectual likings: “To live single… not to have occupation some obligatory one that it embarrassed the freedom of my study, nor rumor of community that prevented the calmed silence of my books”, wrote.