Born on 2 January 1889 in Botucatu, São Paulo, and disincarnated on 30 April 1951 in São Paulo, the Brazilian was a physical medium. He was considered one of the greatest physical mediums in the world. He levitated, materialised objects and disincarnated people.

He was the first-born son of Luigi Mirabelli, an Italian Protestant priest, and Christina Scaccioto Mirabelli. The couple had another child, a daughter, Tereza Mirabelli Eugenio, who was born in 1891. A few years later, however, her mother died, which greatly upset Carmine and probably exacerbated his sensitivity.

Mirabelli had four marriages: with Carmem Guerreiro they had two children, Diva Cristina Mirabelli and Luiz Mirabelli; with Edméa de Paiva Magalhães they had no children; with Maria do Carmo Pinto Pacca they had Regene Pacca Mirabelli; and with Prof Amélia Loureiro they had César Augusto Mirabelli.

At a certain point in his mediumistic life, he began to paint with famous painters in a short time, creating canvases in chalk, watercolour, oil and other modalities, creating a gallery of about forty beautiful paintings of portraits, groups, landscapes, flowers, birds and animals.

In music, he played the works of Richard Wagner and other classical musicians on the piano with great perfection, without ever having studied music. But the truly extraordinary thing was that at a meeting in Santos he absorbed the musical genius Niccolà Paganini and played several pieces on the violin, on a single string, as Paganini did in his earthly life in Paris. All this was witnessed by a very cultivated and astonished audience.

Although the various biographers of the Genoese musician tell countless stories about Paganini, we know that they are all nothing more than astonishing legends fuelled by people's imagination and serving more as propaganda than reality.

As for the Brazilian medium, he did nothing but fulfil the serious tasks that his mediumship gave him, under the watchful guidance of the spiritual teams that accompanied him in his work.

In the world of letters, he was able to write on complex subjects with such speed, clarity and ability to synthesise that he spoke in twenty-eight languages and wrote in as many others. He also wrote dissertations on medicine, law, sociology, economics, politics, theology, psychology, natural history, astronomy, physics, logic, music, occultism, naturalism with judgement and great clarity, defending exhaustive theses on all these subjects.

Carmine Mirabelle died at the age of 62 as a result of a road accident. His contribution to Spiritism is enormous because he made himself available to fulfil all the needs of the dissemination of these mediumistic phenomena.

In the Book of Mediums, we find excellent explanations in Chapter XIV, entitled The Mediums, where Allan Kardec deals with this subject and shows the variety of physical manifestations and the way in which spirits influence people in every intensity.

The Master Kardec of Lyon says that this ability is innate in human beings. It is therefore not a privilege and there are few people who do not possess it, at least in a rudimentary state.

He also says that this ability does not manifest itself in the same way in everyone. Mediums generally have a special aptitude for this or that order of phenomena, which he divides into as many types as there are types of manifestations.

Carmine Mirabelli has brought the physical effects of his mediumship to the light of reason, and we know that many other mediums, whether artists or not, have the quality of benefiting from this help in their performances, even if they do not yet know their means.