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 succeeded through his diplomatic skills to save the Greek people of Lefkada from slaughter.
[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).