Los empeños de una casa

By Juana Ines de la Cruz

1638

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Entre las muchas religiosas españolas que más o menos se dedicaron a la poesía, fuera de Santa Teresa, ninguna llegó adonde la insigne mejicana sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Fueron sus padres D. Pedro Manuel de Asbage, asturiano, y doña Isabel Ramírez de Cantillana, mejicana, ambos con cuantiosos bienes de fortuna y de las personas más distinguidas del virreinato. La monja-poetisa nació en San Miguel Nepantla (12 Noviembre 1651). Desde muy niña despuntó en ella la afición al estudio. Llegó a proponer a sus padres que la dejaran vestir de hombre para concurrir a las clases de la Universidad de Méjico. Brilló en la buena sociedad mejicana, y fué dama de honor de la virreina, marquesa de la Laguna. Ingresó al cabo en el convento de San José, llamado posteriormente Santa Teresa la Antigua, pero hizo su profesión en el de San Jerónimo, donde murió (17 Abril 1695) a los cuarenta y cuatro años de edad. Sor Juana escribió comedias, autos y poesías… y alguna de sus composiciones figura dignamente entre las mejores castellanas. (Salcedo R., A., La literatura española. Resumen de historia crítica)

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Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in a town in the Valley of Mexico to a Creole mother Isabel Ramírez and a Spanish military father, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje. As a child, she learned Nahuatl (Uto-Aztec language spoken in Mexico and Central America) and read and write Spanish in the middle of three years. Thanks to her grandfather's lush library, Juana Inés de la Cruz read the Greek and Roman classics and the theology of the time, she learned Latin in a self-taught way. In 1665, admired for her talent and precocity, she was lady-in-waiting to Leonor Carreto, wife of Viceroy Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored by the Marquises of Mancera, she shone in the viceregal court of New Spain for her erudition and versifying ability. In 1667, Juana Inés de la Cruz entered a convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Mexico but soon had to leave due to health problems. Two years later she entered the Order of St. Jerome, remaining there for the rest of her life and being visited by the most illustrious personalities of the time. She had several drawbacks to her activity as a writer, a fact that was frowned upon at the time and that Juana Inés de la Cruz always defended, claiming the right of women to learn. Shortly before her death, she was forced by her confessor to get rid of her library and her collection of musical and scientific instruments so as not to have problems with the Holy Inquisition, very active at that time. She died of a cholera epidemic at the age of forty-three, while helping her sick companions. The emergence of Sor Juana De La Cruz in the late seventeenth century was a cultural miracle and her whole life was a constant effort of stubborn personal and intellectual improvement.