Stavrianos Vistiaris ( el, Σταυριανός Βιστιάρης, 16th-17th century), was a Greek poet born in the village of

Maliçan Maliçan ( sq, Maliçani, el, Μάλτσιανη; romanized: ''Máltsiani'') is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq. It is inhabited solely by Greeks ...

, in modern Sarande District, a region of Albania. He became renowned because of his extensive epic poem: ''Braveries of the noble and valiant voevode Michael'' ( el, Ανδραγαθίες του ευσεβεστάτου και ανδρειωτάτου Μιχαήλ Βοεβόδα).Greece and the Balkans: identities, perceptions and cultural encounters since the Enlightenment.
Dēmētrēs Tziovas, Dimítris Tzióvas. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003 , p. 69. 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.

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