Ballad: A short narrative poem, written to be sung. They tell of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination of these. A characteristic of the ballad is incremental repetition or variation. Incremental variation repeats one or more lines with small but significant variations that advance the action.
Name[edit] The word zuppa in Italian cuisine refers to both sweet and savoury dishes. It comes from the verb inzuppare which means to dunk. As the sponge cake or Lady fingers are dipped in liqueur the dish is called Zuppa.
The name roughly translates as Joe's Basement (buca, which literally means hole, can be a slang word in Tuscany for basement or cellar, and Beppo is a rare spelling of the nickname for Giuseppe, the Italian form of Joseph, in Northern Italy, since the most used spelling is Beppe).