Enrico Politi was an Italian restorer and maker active in Rome during the early-to-mid twentieth century. He is documented performing restoration work on historical instruments, notably a Neapolitan violin labelled to Lorenzo Ventapane (1813), which Politi restored in Roma in 1926 [1]. By 1939, Politi was also working as a maker in his own right, producing cellos under his own label in Rome [3]. The span of his documented activity—from restoration commissions in 1926 to original construction by 1939—suggests he transitioned from or combined restoration practice with independent instrument making.
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