Italian Watchmaker and Physical Medium. His mediumship was developed by the psychical researcher Captain Enrico de Albertis. In 1902, a series of experiments were conducted on Politi in Paris by de Albertis, Col. Eugene Rochas, Taton, Lemerle, Bacle, Guillaume de Fontenay, and Dariex. Photographs were taken of table levitations. In 1904, he was studied by a group in Rome under the direction of Professor Milesi.
In the Paris seances, a piano was supposedly raised several times and noisily dropped. A table of 39 pounds was lifted over the sitters' heads, went through the opening of the curtain, and dropped upside down upon the floor. Supposedly luminous phenomena were also obtained. In the fifth seance, two luminous crosses, about four inches in high, appeared. The sitters were touched by a hairy hand and phantoms were seen. The Medium sat in a sack fastened at the neck, wrists, and feet.
In 1908, Politi gave more than 70 seances in Milan at the Societe d'Etudes Psychiques.