by Gigi | Aug 13, 2026 | Bianca's Cure
Images: Unsplash (Hartono Creative Studio), Armchair Historians See my post on “… Bianca Capello, and Women Alchemists in Renaissance Florence.” August was a busy time for herbalists collecting, curing, and extracting medicines from plants. See this... 
by Gigi | Aug 1, 2026 | Bianca's Cure
Celtic cross-quarter days follow a reliable climatic cycle that made sense to early agrarians in which the seasons begin six weeks earlier to solstice. Celts (including in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France’s Brittany, England’s Cornwall, and perhaps in certain parts of... 
by Gigi | Jul 29, 2026 | Bianca's Cure
I’m sharing some of my research sources for Bianca’s Cure, and then a clip from a thoughtful interview I did with Women Are Reading. SOURCES: THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, DISEGNO, THE YEAR’S WORK IN MODERN... 
by Gigi | Jul 16, 2026 | Bianca's Cure
The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery is a podcast for those interested in mysterious deaths, unusual cemetery settings, and the history around each. See my podcast here, on Bianca’s Cure, and how it relates. 
by Gigi | Jul 9, 2026 | Bianca's Cure
In this podcast, host Suzy Vadori asked good, challenging questions about how can we possibly know about “the past,” and, in that sense, what does a “history-driven” novel really mean? To answer them, I spoke about the voice/tone-driven... 
by Gigi | Jul 2, 2026 | Bianca's Cure
Check out this podcast, recorded a few days after Bianca’s Cure was published, and recently released.