He set to music the dances from his poetic one-act drama
Τα βουνίσια παλληκάρια (The Mountain Braves). For many years, especially during the era of the
Radicals, he was renowned for the dance
Τα ρόδα τα τριαντάφυλλα (The Roses, the Red Roses), which became well known throughout the Ionian Islands and later spread to the rest of Greece as a folk song, with the addition and variation of verses. He published the following literary works: •
Η σταφιδούλα (
The Little Currant), a long poem (1850, Kefalonia). •
A Rita Gaburi, published in
Italy. • A number of national and romantic
asmata (
lyrical poems), included in a collection titled
Euphrosyne, published in 1852 by Theodoros Pefanis in Kefalonia. However, according to the historian Ilias Tsitselis, several of Melissinos' works were never published and remain, to this day, in the possession of the families of Angelos Melissinos and Charalambos Charitatos. == References ==