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 Ferdinando Ughelli (21 March 1595 – 19 May 1670) was an Italian Cistercian monk and church historian. Biography He was born in Florence. He entered the Cistercian Order and was sent to the Gregorian University in Rome, where he studied under t ...

'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 1623, ...

and

Gabriel Cossart Gabriel Cossart (22 November 1615 – 18 September 1674) was a French Jesuit, known as a historian. He taught rhetoric at the College de Clermont. He was a librarian there, described as “worldly-wise”, and a promoter of the careers of his stud ...

(1671–72), its supplement compiled by Étienne Baluze (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, now preserved in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana 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