Alvise Zorzi
Alvise Zorzi (10 June 1922 – 14 May 2016) was an Italian journalist and writer from the city of Venice. He was the son of Elio Zorzi, a journalist and the director of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica of the Biennale di Venezia in the years immediately following World War II. He was the director of cultural programs for RAI, Italy's state television network and was a member of the UNESCO committee for Venice. Zorzi authored a number of books on the history and civilization of Venice, including biographies of Carlo Goldoni, Marco Polo, Titian and prominent denizens of the city. The final book he published during his lifetime is Napoleone a Venezia, which went into print in 2010. Sources

Short biography at an Italian website 

1922 births
2016 deaths
Writers from Venice
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Historians of the Republic of Venice