Some of you may know that I started coming to Italy in 2010 to research the archives of the 0-3 Montessori work done by Adele Costa Gnocchi and I found Grazia and learned about how she had been asked by Costa Gnocchi to document all of their work and that she had over 30 books and 100s of articles published, books on sleep, on being Montessori grandparents, on the home environment, on humanity's cosmic task towards the environment, and on the Cosmic Task of the youngest child, the Alphabet of human work and the insatiable vagabond explorer. I was able to study with Grazia in 2012 and get a certificate for 0-3 and now I am working on publishing some first translations. The Cosmic Task of 0-3 article was just published in Italian for the first time where she speaks directly to our AMI 0-3 community about the history and the current practices as it evolved in her 70 years of work for the youngest child. She wrote the article for the Prague Congress where we presented her for the first time to the AMI community. She studied directly with Maria Montessori in 1951 in the last Italian 3-6 course in Rome, then did Anna Maria Maccheroni's music course, her sister was Maccheroni's assistant, and Grazia inherited her archives. Grazia's mother was a student of Costa Gnocchi's as a teenager, as well as a student under Montesano, Mario's father, when she studied special needs education in University, and Grazia's family lived a block away from Costa Gnocchi in the center of Rome. Grazia's mother-in-law was Eleonora Honegger, who started the Bergamo training with Mario Montessori and Grazzini. And, she was the first eductor in 0-3 at the Palazzo Taverna "Scuoletta" in 1949 after the first A to I course, she was the first newborn assistant, and worked with families and newborns for 3 years, she was the president of the Montessori Birth Center for 20 years and one of her last books is a full history of the development of 0-3, called "Da Solo, Io!"

Thank you for all you do for the littlest ones everyone, you make a difference.