Family and education
Tripo was born in 1755 as a member of the noble Smecchia family (''Smeća'', ''Smekija'' or ''Smekja'') from Perast, Bay of Kotor (''Boka Kotorska''). Today, the descendants of the Smeccia family live in Trieste, now in Italy. In 1764 Smeccia family built the biggest palace with most beautiful facade in Perast called Smecchia Palace. After he graduated the Law school at the University of Padua he returned to Perast. Smecchia died on 25 September 1812.Bibliography
Smecchia's notable works include Italian language tragedy "Skanderbeg", missing "History of our province" and "Scientific dictionary". He was also mentioned as one of cartographers of Boka Kotorska. In 1785 his map of Boka Kotorska and Albania was printed in Venice. According to don Srećko Vulović, in his memoirs Smecchia wrote in 1805 that chieftains of Montenegro refused to kill all Catholics from Boka Kotorska as proposed by some Orthodox leaders in the assembly. Like many other notable writers from Perast, Smecchia used the library of Andrija Zmajević and under his influence recorded popular poetry. In 1810 Smecchia transcribed a work of Timotej Cizila, the first writer of novels in Montenegro. He wrote a description of the battle between Ivan Bronza, the captain of ship "Costanza Guerriera", and Ottoman fleet of 50 ships at Sipont in 1672.See also
* SmecchiaReferences
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