FILIPPO RESTA DI SOGLIANO. — Pontifical general, born into a noble family at Tagliacozzo in October 1777, died there on 20 November 1853.
Admitted at the age of fourteen (1791) into the Pontifical army, he fought as a sub-lieutenant on the Senio against the French (2 February 1797), being wounded and earning promotion to captain. He refused to serve the Republic (1798–1800) and the Empire (1808–14), for which he suffered imprisonment and exile. Colonel in 1816, he collaborated in the reorganization of the armed forces upon the departure of the Austrians from Romagna (1817). He then entered the general staff and in 1830 became brigadier general and supreme commander. During the disturbances of February 1831, after securing tranquility in Rome, he confronted with about 4,000 men the column of Sercognani near Corese and succeeded in dispersing it with considerable losses, thus saving the capital. He then concentrated forces at Rimini which on 20 January 1832 Cesena (v.). Lieutenant general in 1847, he concluded his career with the honorary rank of captain general granted by Pius IX.