Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World

Keywords: Keywords: Christianity, Faltona Betitia Proba, Feminism, Paganism, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

The female Roman writer Betitia Proba wrote several works in which she tried to provide a cultural bridge between Pagan and Christian letters. For it, she received the criticism of Saint Jerome, among others. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican nun and writer used the example of Proba in many of her writings. This article contends that Sor Juana claimed a second Proba in the Mexican literary milieu of the 17th century in order to defend her rights as a female intellectual.