Can you reverse the progression of coronary heart disease? Yes. Healthy lifestyle changes can halt plaque build-up in the arteries. They can also lower risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and help shed excess weight. Plaque build-up in our arteries usually happens over many years.
The Descendants of Cosimo deâ Medici. Lorenzo was a poet himself, and supported the work of such Renaissance masters as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (whom the Medicis commissioned to complete their family tombs in Florence).
Giovanni was the innovator, the entrepreneur. At his death, the Medici were not only one of the richest families in Florence, they were, according to Christopher Hibbert, in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (1974), the most profitable family business in the whole of Europe.