Coletti (or Coleti), Giovanni Domenico

Coletti (or Coleti), Giovanni Domenico an Italian scholar of the Jesuit order, brother of Niccolo, was born in 1727. He was for ten years missionary to Mexico. On his return to Italy he resided at the College of Bagnacavallo, and retired to his family after the suppression of his order. He died at Venice in 1799. His principal works are, Vida de S. Juan Apostoli (Lima, 1761): — Dizionario Storico- Geografico dell' America Meridioanale (Venice, 1771): — Notize Istoriche della Chiesa di San Pietro in Sylvis di Bagnacavallo (ibid. 1774): — Memorie Istoriche Intorno al Cav. Cesare Ercolani (ibid.

1776): — Luciferi Episcopi Calaritani Vita, cum Notis, Operibus Praefixa (ibid. 1778): — Hispellates Inscriptiones Emendatae (ibid. 1780): — De Nova Ovarii Voce et Officio (ibid. 1781): — Notae et Siglae quae in Nummis et Lapidibus capud Romanos Obtinebant Explicatae (ibid. 1785): — Lettera Sopra l'Iscrizione Pemmoniana dell' Altare di San Martino di Cividale Friuli (ibid. 1789): —Triclinium Opiterginum (ibid. 1794), also a large number of MSS., preserved by his family. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.