PIGHI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Moral theologian and historian, b. at Parona in 1847, d. at Verona on 23 Feb. 1926.
Having graduated in theology at the Gregorian University, he taught moral theology for 40 years and ecclesiastical history for 30 at the Seminary of Verona, greatly esteemed by his pupils, deeply loved and sought 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 worthy of mention are: De iudicio sacramentali ivi 1896); Censurae CIC (ivi 1921); De Matrimonio (ivi 1924). His moral theology is inspired by pure probabilism: it has a practical pastoral orientation and is marked by a sense of profound 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.