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Also known as Francis Bernardone, or il Poverello, St. Francis de Assisi was born Giovanni di Bernadone, named by his mother after John the Baptist on October 4th, 1181 in Umbria, Italy.
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 The Chronicle: Daily news: 05/28/2002 -- 04
One of Kircher's most devoted readers was Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, the brilliant Mexican woman of letters (arguably the most learned person in the New World) who drew on Kircher's work in her poetry.
Findlen showed slides of a portrait of Sor Juana, in which the nun stands in front of an imposing wall of books.
Findlen noted during her talk that Sor Juana once coined a neologism: "to kircherize." It referred to the sense of intellectual excitement generated by the great scholar's works -- from plugging one's brain into a vast data grid, crackling with creative energy, glowing with previously unimaginable possibilities.
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 Jackson, Mexican Freedom
See Octavio Paz, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, (tr.
Paz, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz p.259.
A world-recognized authority on pre-Columbian culture in his own right, Paz is warmly critical of the `cult of anthropology' in his own country whose shrine is Mexico City's famous Museum of Anthropology (Other Mexico, p.321ff).
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