# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-de-espinosa-medrano
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:16:07.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-de-espinosa-medrano"
name: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano"
slug: "juan-de-espinosa-medrano"
description: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano, known in history as Lunarejo, was an Indigenous and noble cleric, and sacred preacher. He was a professor, theologian, archdeacon, playwright, and polymath from the Viceroyalty of Peru. He became a chaplain to the valido of Spain, Luis Méndez de Haro. He is widely regarded as the first great Quechua writer, and recognized as the most prominent figure of the Literary Baroque of Peru and among the most important intellectuals of Colonial Spanish America, alongside New Spain's writers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora."
tagline: "Baroque writer, creole author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miniatura_de_Juan_de_Espinosa_Medrano_del_Jard%C3%ADn_Aleg%C3%B3rico_del_Seminario_de_San_Antonio_Abad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1629"
deathDate: "1688-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.296438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Espinosa_Medrano"
    title: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Espinosa_Medrano"
    title: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Espinosa_Medrano"
    title: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Espinosa_Medrano"
    title: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Espinosa_Medrano"
    title: "Juan de Espinosa Medrano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Espinoza_Medrano"
    title: "Juan de Espinoza Medrano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3752010"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump