Alberto Manzi
Italian mayor, teacher and TV host (1924–1997)
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Alberto Manzi (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto ˈmandzi]; 3 November 1924 – 4 December 1997) was an Italian mayor, school teacher, writer and television host, best known for his popular television show Non è mai troppo tardi (Italian for It's never too late), an educational TV program broadcast in Italy between 1959 and 1968.
Alberto Manzi | |
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 Manzi in the 1960s | |
| Mayor of Pitigliano | |
| In office 23 April 1995 – 29 October 1997 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 November 1924 |
| Died | 4 December 1997 (aged 73) |
| Party | Democratic Party of the Left |
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| Known for | Non è mai troppo tardi |
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.[1]
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.[2]
He also published several novels the most famous of which is Orzowei (1955), from which a serial was adapted for the Tv dei ragazzi (a now-defunct Italian "Children TV").
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.
Legacy
An open-air archeology museum in Pitigliano is named in his honor.[3]