Nicola Coleti
Nicola Coleti (or Coletti; 1680–1765) was an Italian Catholic priest and historian. Life and works. Born in Venice, he studied at Padua, 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 and Gabriel Cossart (1671–72), and that of Jean Hardouin (1715). Baluze had begun a similar work, but only the first volume had appeared. Coleti's collection was based on that of Labbe, 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.