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(1648?-1695) Mexican writer. (Born Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramirez). Juana Inés de la Cruz was a poet and scholar. Her works include "Flood from the Muses' Springs by the Poetess," "Tenth Muse," "Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz" (1689); "Second Volume of the Works of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz" (1692); and others.
CRUZ, SOR JUANA INEZ DE LA
This site provides a brief biography, with links to translated poetry (with bio and poetry in Spanish as well)>
Dartmouth - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project
"She was born November 12, 1651, in San Miguel Nepantla, a village south of Mexico City. She was a Poet Nun, a woman of genius, and a person of intellectual prowess whose ideas and accomplishments were ahead of her time."
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
"Villancicos que se cantaron en la S. I. Catedral de Méjico, en los Maitines del gloriosísimo Príncipe de la Iglesia, el Señor San Pedro, año de 1683, en que se imprimieron."

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