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Stylianos Vlasopoulos (Ital. Signore- Conte Stelio Vlassopulo) (1748–1822) was a scion of the aristocratic Vlassopoulos dynasty of Corfu, which was registered in 1642 in the Golden Book of the nobility ( Libro d'Oro). Stylianos was the son of Don Timotheos Vlasopoulos and Countess Miloulias Bulgari of Corfu.[ citation needed]
Vlasopoulos studied in the birthplace of Corfu. He studied law in Italy and was named doctor at the University of Padua.[ citation needed] He was judge of the Supreme Court, member of the judicial club of Corfu,[ citation needed] lawyer,[ citation needed] a member of the Ionian Academy [1] and politician of the Ionian Islands in key positions in the offices of Senator,[ citation needed] legislator,[ citation needed] mayor of Corfu[ citation needed] and Governor of Lefkada.[ citation needed]
During Vlassopoulos's tenure in Lefkada, Ali Pasha sent him an ultimatum[ according to whom?] to give him the armatolous, who were persecuted by Ali. They fled to Lefkada with their families.[ citation needed] Vlasopoulos deliberately raised various obstructions,[ citation needed] so Ali ordered cannon and troops to Arta,[ citation needed] Preveza and Vonitsa and on land across from the island in order to invade it.[ citation needed] Vlasopoulos succeeded through his diplomatic skills to save the Greek people of Lefkada from slaughter.[ citation needed]
In his later years, he served as advisor to the government of the Ionian Islands.[ citation needed] In Corfu, he worked as a judge and a lawyer while he devoted himself to writing.[ citation needed] He published works in Italian using the pseudonym Biagio Colonna (who according to at least one author, Michael Pratt, was Vlassopoulos himself), [2] including La Difesa della Chiesa Greca (The Defense of the Greek Church), [3] written in 1800 and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1803. [4] For one period, he was editor of Corfiot publications Mercurio Litterario (1805–1808) and Gazetta Urbana (1802–1803).[ citation needed]
References
- ^ de Bosset, Charles Philippe (1821). Parga, and the Ionian Islands. London: John Warren. p. 157.
- ^ Pratt, Michael (1978). Britain's Greek empire: reflections on the history of the Ionian Islands from the fall of Byzantium. Collings. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-86036-025-4.
- ^ Colonna, Biaggio (1800). La Difesa della chiesa greca ultimamente assalita da Comenido Reaixtei, scritta da Biaggio Colonna ... (Publicata da Stelio Vlassopulo.) (in Italian).
- ^ Index librorum prohibitorum sanctissimi domini nostri Gregorii XVI Pontificis Maximi. Rome. 1835. p. 106.
Sources
- anemi.lib.uoc.gr
- Greek encyclopedia Nea Domi
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