Coletti (or Coleti), Jacopo (or Giacomo)
an Italian scholar of the Jesuit order, lived at the close of the 18th century. On the suppression of the Jesuits, he returned to his family and devoted himself to study and ecclesiastical labors. His principal works are, Dissertazione Sugli Antichi Pedagogii (Venice, 1780, inserted in the Opusculi Ferraresi): — De Situ Stridonis, Urbis Natalis S. Hieronymi (ibid. 1784). Coletti also worked on a continuation of the Illyricum Sacrum of Daniele Farlati, and the publication of the work of Lucifero, bishop of Cagliari, by his brother Giovanni Domenico. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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