Ernest Bozzano

Bozzano was born in Genoa. He did not receive formal education, he was self-taught. He was influenced by the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer and took interest in psychical research. He wrote more than 60 books and 200 papers on psychical matters. He became known as a popular sympathizer of spiritism in Italy. He attributed most paranormal phenomena to the survival of the human soul.

Bozzano contributed articles and a preface to Gwendolyn Kelley Hack's Modern Psychic Mysteries, 1929. The book documented séances that Bozzano attended with the medium Marquis Carlo Centurione Scotto during 1927-1928 at Millesimo Castle. He was convinced from the Millesimo sittings that there was genuine spiritualist phenomena. His book Polyglot Mediumship (1932) recorded 35 alleged cases of xenoglossy. He was an early researcher on deathbed phenomena.

Bozzano drew criticism from psychical researchers for being a credulous investigator. In a review of Hack's Psychic Mysteries, investigating officer Theodore Besterman from the Society for Psychical Research wrote that "Bozzano's claims are wholly unfounded, and that the Millesimo sittings have not the slightest vestige of scientific value."

Hans Driesch wrote that Bozzano was an acute theoriser but "unfortunately far too slipshod in accepting alleged facts."

• Ipotesi Spiritica e Teorie Scientifiche (1903)
• Per la Difesa dello Spiritismo (1927)
• Gwendolyn Kelley Hack. Modern Psychic Mysteries (Preface by Ernesto Bozzano, 1929)
• Polyglot Mediumship (Xenoglossy) (1932)
• Dei Fenomeni di Infestazione (1936)
• Les Phénomènes de Bilocation (1937)
• Discarnate Influence in Human Life: A Review of the Case for Spirit Intervention (1938)
• Popoli Primitivi e Manifestazioni Supernormali (1941)
• Dei Fenomeni di Telestesia (1942)
• Musica Trascendentale (1943)
• Le Visioni dei Morenti (1947)
• Luci nel Futuro (two volumes, 1947)
• La Psiche Domina la Materia (1948)
• La Crisi della Morte nelle Descrizioni dei Defunti Comunicanti (1952)