What is Juana Inés de la Cruz?
{{Infobox person | name = Juana Inés de la Cruz | image = Sor Juana by Miguel Cabrera (cropped).jpg | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = [[San Miguel Nepantla]] | death_date = | death_place = [[Mexico City]] | occupation = author | awards = | spouse = | children = | relations = }} '''Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana''' (12 November 1648, San Miguel Nepantla, New Spain - 17 April 1695, Mexico, [[Viceroyalty of New Spain|New Spain]]), better known as '''Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz''', was a writer and Catholic nun in [[Viceroyalty of New Spain|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 language|Spanish]]. [[File:Segundo_volumen_de_las_obras_de_Sor_Juana_Inés_de_la_Cruz.jpg|thumb|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 * 17