Alberto Manzi
Alberto Manzi was an Italian mayor, school teacher, writer and television host, best known for his popular television show Non è mai troppo tardi, an educational TV program broadcast in Italy between 1959 and 1968.
Biography
Manzi was born 3 November 1924 in Rome.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, pedagogy and philosophy.
He worked as porter and an educator in a teenage prison in Rome before a full-time job as a primary school teacher.
He was chosen to host the TV programme Non è mai troppo tardi, which made him a celebrity, conceived as an auxiliary help in the social struggle against illiteracy; the show was broadcasting real-life primary school classroom lessons, with revolutionary concepts in didactic methods for those times. It started broadcasting in 1960.
He also published several novels the most famous of which is Orzowei, from which a serial was adapted for the Tv dei ragazzi.
From 23 April 1995 to 29 October 1997 he was mayor of Pitigliano, in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany.
He died 4 December 1997 in Pitigliano.