Alberto Manzi

Alberto Manzi (Roma, 3 November 1924 – Pitigliano, 4 December 1997) was a school teacher, a writer and an Italian television host known mostly for being the art director of the "Non è mai troppo tardi" (It's never too late) TV show broadcast between 1959 and 1968.

Biography

He attended navy studies before ending his primary training high school degree and followed a peculiar path of studies achieving three academic degrees in biology, in pedagogy and philosophy.
He worked as an educator in a teen-age prison in Rome before a full-time job as a primary school teacher.
He was chosen in order to conduct the TV program "Non è mai troppo tardi", that made him a celebrity and that was conceived as an auxiliary help in the social struggle against analphabetism.
The TV program was broadcasting real life primary school classroom lessons, with revolutionary concepts in didactic methods for those times.
He also published several novels the most famous of which is Orzowei (1955), from which was extracted a serial for the "Tv dei ragazzi" (a now defunct Italian "Children TV").
Different schools in Italy are named after Alberto Manzi. From 1995 to 1997 he was mayor of Pitigliano in the Grosseto province, Tuscany.