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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was born in the San Miguel Nepantla, State of Mexico, on November
12, 1648. Your name,before taking the habit, was Joan of Asbaje and Ramirez as was natural
daughter Isabel Ramirez de Santillana Creole and Pedro Manuel de Vizcaya Asbaje.

Being small, Sor Juana was raised by hismaternal grandfather Pedro Ramirez, on the estate of
Panoayan. His genius was manifested at an early age: having studied only the first letters in
Amecameca.

Three years Sor Juana could read, sevenasked to send her to study at the University and eight wrote a paean to the feast of Corpus.

In 1656, on the death of his grandfather, his mother sent Sor Juana to the capital to live in the
homeof his sister, Maria Ramirez, wife of wealthy Juan Mata.

There Sor Juana Ines studied Latin "in twenty lessons" with the bachelor Martin Olivas, bastándole
only those few to master the language,which is demonstrated in the mastery of several of his
works, especially in the carols, Latin verses containing .

Sor Juana account in his "Letter to Sor Philothea response of Cruzleía", studiedhard, and such was
his stubbornness to learn which eventually resorted to the method of cutting the hair
autocoercitivo to put a deadline that growing again, to have learned and something I wanted.Sor Juana read widely throughout his life both Roman and Greek classics and Spanish.

Sor Juana In 1664 he entered the court as a companion of the viceroy, Maria Leonor Carreto,
Marquise deMancera, to which he devoted some sonnets by the name of Laura. The viceroy,
admired, made forty scholars gather all powers to undertake an unparalleled examination which,
of course, emergedtriumphant, leaving admired the wise wisely for answering every question,
argument and rebuttal that these will do.

Tired of court life, Sor Juana decided to enter a convent because, as she says, "for...