Stavrianos Vistiaris


Stavrianos Vistiaris, was a Greek poet born in the village of Maliçan, in modern Sarande District, a region of Albania that Greeks refer to as Northern Epirus.
He became renowned because of his extensive epic poem: Braveries of the noble and valiant voevode Michael. The poem was written around 1602 in a medieval Greek dialect; at the time Vistiaris was working at the court of the ruler of Wallachia, Michael the Brave.
The work describes the personality and life of the Wallachian ruler.