Filippo Psalidi (Corfu, 1743 – Pavia, 10 April 1812)
Of noble ancestry, he entered the military service as a cadet in the Venetian infantry, then passed to the artillery on 31 October 1764. He was made a lieutenant and aide-de-camp on 31 March 1769, a captain on 3 October 1770, a major on 6 October 1784, then retired as a lieutenant-colonel on 7 September 1796. A free-mason, he was a member of the Municipality of Verona, of the Committee of Public Instruction, of the central Government and of the Committee of General Safety. After Campoformio, he asked to serve in the Cisalpine Republic, already being a citizen thanks to some property on the Mincio. On 8 January 1798 he was made battalion chief, and commanded the artillery at the Milan castle, being taken prisoner from April 1799 to February-March 1801. Ion the same year he was appointed deputy director of the Modena school, then was promoted to colonel in 1803, and by imperial decree on 20 August 1805 to governor of the Pavia school for NCOs. He was decorated with the iron Crown in 1806. In 1809 he left the school, being made comandante d’armi 3rd class at Trento, then at Pavia. Suffering from depression, he shot himself in 1812 (cf. MSA, WO 1777, EBA, b. 41, f. 1, Canevazzi, Giovanni. 1914. La Scuola militare di Modena 1756-1914, I vol. Modena: Giovanni Ferraguti: 361-363).