PIGHI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Moral theologian and historian, b. at Parona in 1847, d. at Verona on 23 February 1926.

Having earned a doctorate in theology at the Gregorian University, he taught moral theology for 40 years and Church history for 30 at the Seminary of Verona, greatly esteemed by his students, and deeply loved and sought out for advice by the clergy, whom he directed as vicar general for 13 years.

His fundamental work is the Cursus theologiae moralis in 4 vols. (6th ed. edited by A. Grazioli, Verona 1946-47). Also to be remembered: De iudicio sacramentali (ibid. 1896); Censurae CIC (ibid. 1921); De Matrimonio (ibid. 1924). His moral theology is inspired by pure probabilism: it has a practical pastoral tone and is informed by a sense of deep piety and orthodoxy. His principal work as a historian is the Institutiones historiae ecclesiasticae (3 vols.), with apologetic aims, criticized for its method and arrangement of the material.

Bibliography

BIBL.: S. Romani, Theologia moralis, I. Rome 1933, p. 34.

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