Corbara with its position at the borders of Vesuvio valleys shared more with this than with Amalfi dukedom its most important historical phases. The presence dates back, in fact, to the period of the ancient peopling, when at short distance rose big towns, such as Pompei, Nuceria Alfaterna. From here some inhabitants had to start living here to better spoil happy agricultural characteristics  giving life not to urban settlements but to small rural homes or rural villas.

In a later period the name of Corbara appears (1010) and it carried on gravitating around the near Nocera dei Pagani and the neighboring S. Egidio del Monte Albino, so that already in XVI century it elected only one mayor with S. Egidio. The village belonged to S. Trifone Monastery of Ravello and it became independent since mid 1700.