The colonial thrust embedded in that violence is brought to the fore in the espanoleta "Pues la excelsa, sagrada Maria" (poem 66), another piece in the suite composed in celebration of the Viceroy and the Vicereine at the convent of San Jeronimo.

Adopting the European style of religious paintings that adorn many Mexican churches, Salazar renders Sister Juana and her lover, the vicereine , floating through the air over an upside-down crucifix.

Blythe Alice Raviola descriptively analyses the life of Margherita of Savoy-Gonzaga as a young girl in Savoy, in Mantua where she sought to protect her daughter's position, and later as vicereine in Portugal, emphasising the utility of the transnational connections she forged through marriage and extensive correspondence, and the historiographical consequences of this tripartite life across different regions.

The higher profile of Lady Aberdeen as vicereine suggested an effort to portray her as a stand-in for a maternally imagined Queen Victoria, as a sort of national mother.

It had two separate thrones for the British Viceroy and Vicereine , which have now been replaced by a simple chair for the President and a statue of Gautam Buddha belonging to Gupta period, fifth Century, A.D.

Juana went into a convent as she thought it less unpleasant than marriage, in a time when she could presumably not have stayed single - but there is little sense of this powerlessness as she debates theology with a bishop, and sips drinks with the Viceroy and Vicereine .

During their stay Alva was entertained by Lady Lansdowne, the Vicereine , and learned the interesting fact that the Vicereine 's nephew was the new 23-year-old Duke of Marlborough, heir to one of the most prestigious dukedoms in England and master of Blenheim Palace, a lavish and celebrated home of more than 200 rooms done in the English Baroque style.

As a nun in Mexico, Juana de Asbaje (the last name that Sor Juana used when she entered the court of Vicereine Leonor Carreto) wrote incomparable verses about love that dared to challenge sexual inequality and double standards.