We owe descriptions of the Bazaar at the middle of 19th century to writers such as Edmondo De Amicis and Théophile Gautier.
He wrote many detached papers on various literary subjects, including the writings of St. Augustine, Aristophanes ("The Clouds"), Petronius, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Voltaire, Denis Diderot ("Rameau's Nephew"), Paul Louis Courier, Petar II Petrović Njegoš, and Edmondo De Amicis, his contemporary.
Tasca also wrote a Messa da Requiem, a death elegy to Edmondo De Amicis, as well as symphonic and chamber music.
In this period, his colleagues and friends include the writers and intellectuals Andrea Maffei, Edmondo De Amicis, and Enrico Nencioni.