their astonishing wealth made them one of the most powerful families on earth back in the 1500s. they practically bankrolled the renaissance, paying for artists and scientists like michelangelo and galileo to remake the world. tucci: how many days a week are you here? they are the medici. so come in. and i m going to meet one of them. you are in a place that the florentines call the casino dei medici . and this is a place created as a scientific laboratory the medici wanted all the bright minds in europe to come here and to create new things and to experiment with science, with the arts, with food, with spices. so it was like you say a think tank. a think tank. or a taste tank. exactly. expert art restorer daniela murphy is sneaking me in for an audience with the most powerful medici of them all. where is he? he s right, right there.