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.
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(Middle Portrait) Miniature of Juan de Espinosa Medrano from the Allegorical Garden of the Seminary of San Antonio Abad. The writing below the miniature features a short poem that reads: "The Archdeacon you see here is Medrano, that giant who in the field of good letters and sciences has no equal."
Portrait of Viceroy Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, 10th Count of Lemos.
Clorinda Matto de Turner, author of a biography on Juan de Espinosa Medrano titled "Don Juan de Espinosa Medrano, that is, the Spotty-Faced Doctor" included in Pencil Sketches of Acclaimed Americans (1890). Her biographical construction of Espinosa Medrano is now the most familiar in Peruvian popular culture and the Andean provinces in the Republic of Peru.
Present state of the Seminary of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco (located in Plaza Nazarenas in the contemporary city of Cusco).
Church of San Cristóbal in Cusco, Peru
"The panegyric prayer to James the Great" sermon was preached in the Cathedral of Cuzco and later published in the volume La Novena Maravilla (The Ninth Wonder).
"Our Lady of Mercy" sculpture by Miquel Oslé i Sáenz de Medrano at the Church of La Merce. This Marian theme echoes Espinosa Medrano's Sermon panegyric to the most august and most holy name of Mary in 1688 and exemplifies the Baroque devotion expressed in both word and image.Writers born in the 1620s 6
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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.
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