Bianca’s Cure: A Novel by Gigi Berardi (.ePUB)
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Bianca’s Cure: A Novel by Gigi Berardi
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Overview: For readers of Lessons in Chemistry: a fact-inspired novel reimagining the life of Bianca Capello, a Venetian noblewoman who pursues real science in Medici Florence.
Florence, 1563. Bianca Capello slips the noose of an arranged marriage and vanishes into Florence, where the Medici court funds alchemy and experiment. She marries a clerk for cover; her skill with herbs and distillates soon draws an invitation to the palace—and the attention of Duke Regent Francesco de’ Medici.
Their bond unfolds inside a city alive with inquiry and danger, but the true heart of this story is Bianca’s relentless hunt for a fever cure. Working with artemisia in gardens, workrooms, and sickrooms, she tests the fine line where medicine can look like poison. History still holds its mysteries: traces of arsenic have been found in Francesco’s remains, and Bianca’s body has never been recovered.
Bianca’s Cure imagines what might have been as a woman of rare intellect navigates power, desire, and risk at the Medici court. Brilliant and determined, Bianca presses forward until only her work seems to stand between Francesco and death. Her cure may save him—or cost her everything.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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