After his studies at a liceo classico in his native city, from which he graduated in 1962, he worked for several Italian literary and poetry magazines: Paragone, Carte segrete, Bimestre, Periferia, and Il Policordo.
[1] Bellezza entered the Roman intellectual world in the mid-1960s when, thanks to literary critic and writer Enzo Siciliano, he became increasingly close to Sandro Penna, Aldo Palazzeschi, Attilio Bertolucci, Alberto Moravia, and Elsa Morante, who eventually became a confidant.
Invettive e licenze, notable for its technical rigour, depicts people overwhelmed by bitterness, shame, feelings of guilt, alienation, scandal, and sexual perversions.
[3] Since 1978 has begun a productive collaboration with Pellicanolibri, with the series "Inediti rari e diversi", publishing texts by Alberto Moravia, Renzo Paris, Gianfranco Rossi, Goliarda Sapienza and Anna Maria Ortese, for her with Beppe Costa and Adele Cambria he will manage to enforce for the first time the Bacchelli’s law, an annuity which is intended to poets and writers in need.
l'insonnia viene solo ai bugiardi, a chi disobbedisce insomnia comes only to liars, to those who disobey In his guilt-ridden insomniac persona, he anticipated the poetry that would be too often adopted in the 1980s, that of the artist-outcast.
E se l'orecchio poso al rumore solo delle scale battute dal rimorso sento la tua discesa corrosa dalla speranza And if the ear I place to the noise only of staircases beaten by remorse I hear your descent corroded by hope He is reduced to corrosive accounts of his own social condition:[9]