Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, who read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass (1955), was impressed and published it.

Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s.

The protagonist, Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in Italian literature.

In both This Kind of Love and Caliph, Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions.

In 2010, his seven "stories" as he liked to call them, were included in the Novels volume of the prestigious series "I Meridiani.”[2] Bevilacqua directed seven films between 1970 and 1999.