Nicolao Colletti (also written Coletti) was an 18th-century Italian mathematician and

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priest in the church of San Moisè 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. In 1787 his book about mathematics ''Dissertazioni d'algebra'' was published in

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