 Karadžić and several other prominent Serb academics tried to convince Višnjić to return to Ottoman Serbia, hoping that this would inspire him to write new material, but the aging bard refused.Biographer Branko Šašić attributes Višnjić's refusal to his philosophical and ideological opposition to Miloš Obrenović, who had initiated a second uprising against the Ottomans in 1815.Višnjić is said not to have been able to forgive Obrenović for ordering Karađorđe's death.