| Nicola Chetta | |
| Native Name: | Nikollë Keta |
| Native Name Lang: | Arbëresh |
| Birth Date: | 12 July 1741 |
| Birth Place: | Contessa Entellina, Sicily |
| Death Place: | Palermo, Sicily |
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Nicola Chetta, (Arbërisht: Nikollë Keta; 12 July 1741 - 15 December 1803) was an Arbëresh writer and priest. He was born in Contessa Entellina, Sicily. He was educated at the Greek Orthodox seminary in Palermo. In 1777, Keta himself became rector of the seminary. As a poet, he wrote both religious and secular verse in Albanian and Greek, and has the honour of having composed the first Albanian sonnet (1777).[1]