>> oh my. meet cosimo primo de medici. he led the family at their dizzying height in the 1500s. in this fresco undergoing restoration, he's become so powerful he's being crowned grand-duke of tuscany by the pope himself he marries an extremely wealthy woman, the spanish princess eleanor de toledo. not only does she bring a lot of money but she brings a lot of the new spices from the new world. the chocolates, the coffee, the pepperoncino. the pomodoro. everything that is the cuisine. >> that's when the tomato arrived? that's when it arrives more or less in that era then. >> which completely altered italian... >> completely. completely. >> ...cuisine. medici money cultivated this city, and the arts and the ideas that grew here in the renaissance changed how we all see the world. but this family also changed the