Career
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 television 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 television 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 television").
Different schools in Italy are named after Alberto Manzi. From 1995 to 1997 he was mayor of Pitigliano in the Grosseto province, Tuscany.