Giandomenico Coleti

Coleti was born in Venice to Sebastiano and Marina Corradini Dall'Aglio and joined the Jesuit College at Ravenna where he studied under the Latinist Camillo Berardi.

He took his oath to joined the Society of Jesus and then left to South America along with fellow Jesuits Carlo Brentano and Nicolò Della Torre.

He moved to Livorno and began to work towards publishing his researches, however his Vite de l'Inca Imperatori was unpublished and is lost.

He lived in Venice where he taught moral theology at the Tivoli college until the Society of Jesus was suppressed in 1773 by Clement XIV.

In 1778 he published Luciferi episcopi Calaritani opera omnia quae extant along with Iacopo.