Tomo Medin
Tomo Medin, also known as count Tommaso Medini (1725–1788) was a Montenegrin Serb adventurer and author, translator of Voltaire's Henriade into Italian. He achieved prominence in high society by rubbing shoulders with Stefano Zannowich, Count of St. Germain, Chevalier d'Eon, Alessandro Cagliostro, André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat and Giacomo Casanova with whom he had two duels. Biography He was born in 1725 in Petrovac, Budva, Petrovac, near the coastal town of Budva at the time under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Venice, today in Montenegro. Unlike his Montenegrin predecessors, Tomo Medin preferred to study the laws and letters instead of joining a foreign military, a common practice among the young at the time. After a decade of unregulated life (1746-1756), he found shelter in the court of Maria Teresa in Vienna, where he remained until 1765, when the empress elected him captain of justice in Mantua, where he remained until 1768. But the passion of gambling beckoned him ...
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Montenegrin Serb
Serbs of Montenegro ( sr, / ) or Montenegrin Serbs ( sr, / ),, meaning "Montenegrin Serbs", and meaning "Serbs Montenegrins". Specifically, Their regional autonym is simply , literal meaning "Montenegrins",Charles Seignobos, Political History of Europe, since 1814, ed. S. M. Macvane, H. Holt and Company, New York, 1900, pp. 663–664; excerpt from chapter XXI The Christian Nations of The Balkans, subchapter Servia and Montenegro, passages Montenegro the same as the ethnic group of ''Montenegrins''). In the early modern times, before the Kingdom of Montenegro, people iving within present-day borderswere divided by the identities of (; Brda), (; Old Herzegovina), (; Boka Kotorska) and (; Old Montenegro). , meaning "Serbs in Montenegro". compose native and the second largest ethnic group in Montenegro (28.7% of country's population), after the ethnic Montenegrins. Additional 0.64% of the population is made up of ''Serbs-Montenegrins'' () and ''Montenegrins-Serbs'' (). ...
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