[1][7][8] From 1977 he lived with his second wife, Cordelia von den Steinen [it], in the mediaeval Castello della Verrucola [it] in the comune of Fivizzano, above Carrara.

[9] In the late 1930s he moved to Rome and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti under Ferruccio Ferrazzi, who taught both painting and sculpture.

[2] In the years after the Second World War Cascella, with his brother Andrea and various friends, worked in ceramics and mosaic in a brick-works in the Valle dell'Inferno [it], the brick-making district of Rome.

In about 1949 he and his wife Cesarini Sforza were commissioned to create mosaics for the third-class waiting-room of the Stazione Termini, the principal railway station of Rome.

[10] At about this time he also made small-scale reliefs in various materials, some of them drawing inspiration from the work of Roberto Matta, who was a friend.