Stylianos Vlasopoulos

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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.{{Cn|date=October 2011}}

Vlasopoulos studied in the birthplace of Corfu. He studied law in Italy and was named doctor at the University of Padua.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} He was judge of the Supreme Court, member of the judicial club of Corfu,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} lawyer,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} a member of the Ionian Academy{{cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=qpA2AAAAMAAJ|page=157}}|title=Parga, and the Ionian Islands|last=de Bosset|first=Charles Philippe|publisher=John Warren|year=1821|isbn=|location=London|page=157}} and politician of the Ionian Islands in key positions in the offices of Senator,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} legislator,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} mayor of Corfu{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} and Governor of Lefkada.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}

During Vlassopoulos's tenure in Lefkada, Ali Pasha sent him an ultimatum{{according to whom|date=October 2011}} to give him the armatolous, who were persecuted by Ali. They fled to Lefkada with their families.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} Vlasopoulos deliberately raised various obstructions,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} so Ali ordered cannon and troops to Arta,{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} Preveza and Vonitsa and on land across from the island in order to invade it.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} Vlasopoulos succeeded through his diplomatic skills to save the Greek people of Lefkada from slaughter.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}

In his later years, he served as advisor to the government of the Ionian Islands.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} In Corfu, he worked as a judge and a lawyer while he devoted himself to writing.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} He published works in Italian using the pseudonym Biagio Colonna (who according to at least one author, Michael Pratt, was Vlassopoulos himself),{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A467AAAAIAAJ&q=editions:8OL-VTinC4oC|title=Britain's Greek empire: reflections on the history of the Ionian Islands from the fall of Byzantium|last=Pratt|first=Michael|publisher=Collings|year=1978|isbn=978-0-86036-025-4|page=97}} including La Difesa della Chiesa Greca (The Defense of the Greek Church),{{Cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=emdNQwAACAAJ}}|title=La Difesa della chiesa greca ultimamente assalita da Comenido Reaixtei, scritta da Biaggio Colonna ... (Publicata da Stelio Vlassopulo.).|last=Colonna|first=Biaggio|date=1800|publisher=|isbn=|location=|pages=|language=it}} written in 1800 and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1803.{{Cite book| title = Index librorum prohibitorum sanctissimi domini nostri Gregorii XVI Pontificis Maximi | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=E5NixzewnoAC&pg=RA1-PA106 | year = 1835 | location = Rome | page = 106 }} For one period, he was editor of Corfiot publications Mercurio Litterario (1805–1808) and Gazetta Urbana (1802–1803).{{citation needed|date=October 2011}}