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 podcast interview I did with Anne Marie Cannon of Armchair Historians to discuss Renaissance Florence, women’s hidden knowledge, and the search for a cure for malaria. This is a podcast on alchemy, medicine, power, and the ways women carved out influence in a world designed to keep them quiet.
