Giovanni Miegge was an Italian Protestant theologian and author on religious issues. He was professor of theology at the Waldensian school of theology (Facoltà valdese di teologia) in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, Italy.

Miegge supported neo-orthodoxy

Neo-orthodoxy

Neo-orthodoxy, in Europe also known as theology of crisis and dialectical theology,is an approach to theology in Protestantism that was developed in the aftermath of the First World War...

, and promoted the ideas of Karl Barth

Karl Barth

Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas...

 in Italy, and translated Barth's work on the Epistle to the Romans. Miegge wrote many books, including a biography of Martin Luther

Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...

 published in 1946.

He also wrote the book The Virgin Mary

The Virgin Mary (book)

The Virgin Mary: The Roman Catholic Marian Doctrine is the English title of Italian Protestant theologian Giovanni Miegge's 1950 work La vergine Maria: Saggio di storia del dogma. In the original Italian language it has gone through four printings, the most recent in 2008.-Overview:The book...

which analyzed Marian

Mariology

Roman Catholic Mariology is theology concerned with the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ as developed by the Catholic Church. Roman Catholic teachings on the subject have been based on the belief that "The Blessed Virgin, because she is the Mother of God, is believed to hold a certain...

 teachings from Catholic and Protestant perspectives.

Books about Miegge

• Giovanni Miegge: teologo e pastore (in Italian http://books.google.com/books?id=Npi8PQAACAAJ&dq=%22Giovanni+Miegge%22&hl=en&ei=p1EkTtz1AtCr-gbbkLm2Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAjgK) by Sara Saccomani, Claudiana Publishers, 2002

Books by Miegge

• Karl Barth: Epistle to the Romans, Feltrinelli, Milano 1968,
• Luther: the Man and his thoughts (1483-1521), Claudiana, Torino 1946, 2003.
• The Virgin Mary
  The Virgin Mary (book)
  The Virgin Mary: The Roman Catholic Marian Doctrine is the English title of Italian Protestant theologian Giovanni Miegge's 1950 work La vergine Maria: Saggio di storia del dogma. In the original Italian language it has gone through four printings, the most recent in 2008.-Overview:The book...
  
  , Claudiana, Torino 1950