The original term was "bassetto." Its geographical origin was Poland, not Italy as the name suggests.
I came across it in a German treatise by a German from Wroclaw, thus his knowledge of Polish terminology. Oddly, it later appeared in GROUT, almost as an afterthought;-)
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