Dec 25, 2009
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Mexico, a small village in the foothills of the Popocatépetl volcano, probably in November, 1648. The traditional date of her birth, based on a biography by the Jesuit Diego Calleja, was November 12, 1651, but scholars have found a baptismal record for her parish for a female child dated December 2, 1648, which is believed to be hers. She is recorded as a “daughter of the Church,” since her parents, Isabel Ramírez de Santillana and Pedro Manuel de Asbaje, were not officially...
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