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NEWSLETTER

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013

ISSUE 1 - YEAR 10 | FUA/PALAZZI | FEB - MAR 2020

BREAKING NEWS

CREATING A SPACE OF NORMALITY: TOMMASINO BACCIOTTI FOUNDATION TEAMS UP WITH FUA-AUF BY MACI COSMORE | PHOTOS BY FUA-AUF STAFF At just nine months old, Tommaso “Tommasino”

controls sleep. One type of tumor that starts in this

Bacciotti was diagnosed with pineoblastoma, a rare

gland is called a pineoblastoma.” The condition known as

form of cancer. Two years later on Dec. 19, 1999, he lost

hydrocephalus is caused by a build-up of cerebrospinal

his battle. In his memory, parents Barbara and Paolo

fluid in the brain.

Bacciotti created the Tommasino Hospitality Project. For the first time, Florence University of the Arts - The

Just a month after Tommaso’s passing, his parents

American University of Florence is teaming up with the

decided to create a scholarship dedicated to his memory.

Tommasino Hospitality Project to host a cooking class

This scholarship would help send a doctor to New York

for children currently fighting cancer.

to research more about the care and treatments of pineoblastoma. Within the following ten years, the

Pineoblastoma, also referred to as “pineal gland tumor,”

couple created the Tommasino Hospitality Project,

is a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. According

an organization focused on the study, treatment, and

to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital website,

assistance for childhood cancers, especially brain

“The pineal gland is a tiny organ located deep inside the

tumors. Bacciotti said: “We lived two years, from 1997,

brain that secretes a hormone called melatonin, which

the year Tommaso was born, to 1999, the year he died,


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