Raffaello Bellini taught at Regia Scuola Tecnica Statale, Chivasso, He was a non resident Member of Società dei naturalisti in Napoli.
he collaborated with the University of Naples Federico II.
[2] Together with the leading scholars of malacology then present in Naples (Ignazio Cerio, Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato, etc.)
[3] For nearly fifty years his catalog of molluscs constituted the only general contribution on marine malacofauna of the Gulf of Naples.
[5][6] Parts of his natural history collection are held by the Zoological Museum of Naples and by Centro Caprese Ignazio Cerio on Capri.