Juan de Espinosa Medrano

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.