Stavrianos Vistiaris (, 16th-17th century), was a Greek poet born in the village of Maliçan,Epirus, 4000 years of Greek history and civilization M. V. Sakellariou. Ekdotike Athenon, 1997 , p. 410 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 ().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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