Nicolao Colletti (also written Coletti) was an 18th-century Italian mathematician and academic of the Republic of Venice.
Born in Venice, he was a Catholic priest in the church of San Moisè [1] and a professor of philosophy.
In collaboration with his brother Sebastiano, a bookseller and publisher, he began a new edition of L'Italia Sacra in 1717, which ended in 1722 with the 10th volume. [1]
In 1787 his book about mathematics Dissertazioni d'algebra was published in Turin. [2] [3]
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