[3] Tripo was born in 1755 as a member of the noble Smecchia family (Smeća, Smekija or Smekja) from Perast, Bay of Kotor (Boka Kotorska).
[7] Smecchia's notable works include Italian language tragedy "Skanderbeg",[8] missing "History of our province" and "Scientific dictionary".
[10] 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.
[11] Like many other notable writers from Perast, Smecchia used the library of Andrija Zmajević and under his influence recorded popular poetry.
[12] In 1810 Smecchia transcribed a work of Timotej Cizila, the first writer of novels in Montenegro.