Stavrianos Vistiaris (, 16th-17th century), was a

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poet born in the village of

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, in modern Sarande District, a region of

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. He became renowned because of his extensive epic poem: ''Braveries of the noble and valiant

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Michael'' ().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

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dialect; at the time Vistiaris was working at the court of the ruler of

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. The work describes the personality and life of the Wallachian ruler.

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