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).
The Medici bank was founded by Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici in Florence in 1397. Giovanni â crafty, bug-eyed, lugubrious â established the Medici as the pope's bankers, introduced a popular new method of taxation, and started to commission art and buildings by the likes of Donatello and Brunelleschi.