During World War I, he was at battlefront and produced some sketches, then collected and published in the autobiography "Una vita per la pittura".

He began showing in 1921, and met Gino Rossi, Enrico Fonda e Pio Semeghini who became one of his good friends and who made three different portraits of his.

In 1924 Nino Barbantini set up a personal exhibit of Ravenna in the ”Opera Bevilacqua La Masa show” in Ca' Pesaro.

[3] So in 1948 he left Venice [2] (the attic in Palazzo Carminati) and moved to Treviso, town he loved, where a lot of friends of his in the cultural environment were living (Giovanni Comisso, Sante Cancian – died in 1947 -, Toni Perolo, Nevra Garatti); in Treviso he married Cancian widow and son Luciano was born.

[2] Later he got several rewards in Italy, for instance the privilege of “Commendatore della Repubblica” and the appellation “Accademico Benemerito” by the Accademia Universitaria G. Marconi in Roma thanks to the figurative art activity.