Franciscus Bossinensis
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Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1509 – 1511) (Francis the Bosnian) was a lutenist-composer active in Italy in the 16th century.<ref> Bojan Bujić, "Navigating through the Past": Issues Facing an Historian of Music in Bosnia, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 37 (2006) 67-84 [1]</ref> He lived and worked in Venice. He published two collections 'Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto', containing 126 frottolas for voice and lute and 46 ricercares, printed by the Venetian printing house of Ottaviano Petrucci.