Francesco Corbetta was a famous French guitarist in the 16th Century. He was born in Italy in 1615 at the city of Pavia, and he died in France in 1681 at the city of Paris. In 1639 is the year when he began his musical career as guitarist and teach other people to play guitar in University of Town Bologna. In 1648 he played gitarra at Brussels in the court of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, and at that time also he published his thrid opus. He went/moved to Paris in 1656 and that is the place where he was known as "Francesco Corbetta". In Paris he also played in a court ballet under the direction from Jean-Baptiste Lully, and King Louis the 14th. He teach guitar in the royal court and King Louis the 14th was counted as one of his pupils. He first published his modest guitar collection songs in the age of 24. 

               Francesco Corbetta moved to England in 1660's and he had met King Charles II. Corbetta also teach the King's wife to play gitarra, and he also want to show Charles II of his work with gitarra song. King Charles the II also an Enthusiastic gitarra player. Francesco Corbetta known as traveling musician is well reflected because his type of music of gitarra has style of the Spanish, Italian of course, combined with France and English music style become a form of international flavour of song. He died peacefully in 1681.