[3] During WWI, Belli went with Melotti and his parents to Florence until 1919, when he returned to Rovereto to finish his schooling.
[4] Belli was an Italian intellectual who wrote about art, music, architecture, archaeology, and politics.
[7] Belli traveled to Berlin with architect Luciano Baldessari in 1924 where he began to formulate his ideas about art that would culminate in his publication of Kn in 1935.
He traveled with the Ghiringhelli brothers (they owned Il Milione), the architect Alberto Sartoris, and Melotti.
[1] In 1998, an exhibition was held to investigate his impact on the arts culture in Rome at the Palazzo delle esposizioni.