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Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican poet and scholar (born 1651)

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Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet (1648–1695)

Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a Hieronymite nun and a Spanish writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse", "The Mexican Phoenix", and "The Phoenix of America" by her…
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April 17

Day of the year

April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year.
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