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That's the most convincing. [laughs] for me panzanella is one of the greatest dishes of tuscan poor food. giving brittle old bread new life by using fresh tomatoes to create a surprisingly refreshing salad. knowing my love of food and art, daniela has invited me to a festival this evening. a very fancy festival. the one thing that everybody has in common is the food. >> yeah. this event is about as far as you can get from the wheat threshing festival. here florence's richest and most powerful families have gathered, as they have for centuries, to toast the city's new creative talent from chefs...

They were willing to spend money with other people but never give money to pisa. >> leonardo: yeah, especially pisa. >> even today. but of course, this being italy, food rivalries go deep but no-one can quite remember why. another idea is this, if they don't use salt the bread could stay for a long time. >> really, without salt? i didn't know that. >> because, because the salt, the salt... >> the salt breaks it down. >> the salt became brine. for sure the most convincing one is we don't want to give money to the pisani. that's the most convincing. >> i believe that, actually, most of all. for ...

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 ta...

Knowing my love of food and art, daniela has invited me to a festival this evening. a very fancy festival. the one thing that everybody has in common is the food. >> yeah. this event is about as far as you can get from the wheat threshing festival. here florence's richest and most powerful families have gathered, as they have for centuries, to toast the city's new creative talent from chefs and musicians, to artists hoping to follow in the footsteps of da vinci and michelangelo. you are right now in a situation where, more or less 500 years ago, the medici would have done something like this. ...

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, w...