Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), full name
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar and
poet of the
Baroque school, and
nun of
New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when
Mexico was part of the
Spanish Empire, she is considered today a Mexican writer, and stands at the beginning of the history of
Mexican literature in the Spanish language.