Nicola Coleti (or Coletti; 1680–1765) was an Italian Catholic priest and historian.

Life and works

Born in

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, he studied at

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, where he received the degree of Doctor. He was sent to the church of San Moisè at Venice, and there devoted himself to historical and antiquarian research. His first work of importance was a new edition of Ferdinando Ughelli's ''Italia Sacra'' published in ten volumes from 1717 to 1722. Besides correcting many errors, Coleti continued Ughelli's history to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Coleti then undertook the compilation of his large work entitled ''Collectio Conciliorum''. Up to this time there had been two standard histories of the councils, ''Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio'' by

Philippe Labbe Philippe Labbe ( la, Philippus Labbeus; 10 July 1607 – 16 or 17 March 1667) was a French Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological questions. Born in Bourges, he entered the Society of Jesus on 28 September 16 ...

and Gabriel Cossart (1671–72), its supplement compiled by

Étienne Baluze Étienne Baluze (24 November 1630 – 28 July 1718) was a French scholar and historiographer, also known as Stephanus Baluzius. Biography Born in Tulle, he was educated at his native town, at the Jesuit college, where he studied the Arts. H ...

(of which only the first volume was published), and the collection of

Jean Hardouin Jean Hardouin ( en, John Hardwin; la, Johannes Harduinus; 1646 – 3 September 1729), was a French classical scholar. He is most known for his theory that most texts from Antiquity were forgeries. Biography He was born at Quimper in Brittany. ...

(1715). Coleti's collection was based on that of Labbe and Cossart, though he used Baluze and Hardouin. It was published by his brother Sebastiano from 1728 to 1733 in twenty-three volumes. The last two were called ''Apparatus primus'' and ''Apparatus secundus'', containing the indexes, for which the collection was especially valuable. Other works of Coleti's were ''Series episcoporum Cremonensium aucta'' (1749), and ''Monumenta ecclesiæ Venetæ S. Moisis'' (1758). Coleti also annotated a manuscript of

Scipione Maffei Francesco Scipione Maffei (; 1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was a Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunables of ...

, now preserved in the

Biblioteca Vallicelliana The Biblioteca Vallicelliana is a library in Rome, Italy. The library is located in the Oratorio dei Filippini complex built by Francesco Borromini in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova. The library holds about 130,000 volumes of manuscripts, incunabul ...

at Rome. He died at Venice in 1765.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleti, Nicola 1680 births 1765 deaths Republic of Venice clergy 18th-century Venetian historians 18th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests