Alberto Manzi (; Rome, 3 November 1924 – Pitigliano, 4 December 1997) was an Italian school teacher, writer and television host, best known for being the art director of ''Non è mai troppo tardi'' (Italian for ''It's never too late''), an educational TV programme 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

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s: in biology, pedagogy and philosophy. He worked as 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. Several schools in Italy are named after him. He also published several novels the most famous of which is ''Orzowei'' (1955), from which a Serial (radio and television), serial was adapted for the ''Tv dei ragazzi'' (a now-defunct Italian "Children TV"). From 1995 to 1997 he was mayor of Pitigliano, in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany. {{DEFAULTSORT:Manzi, Alberto Mass media people from Rome Italian male writers Italian schoolteachers Italian television personalities 1997 deaths 1924 births