120 years ago, on 19 December 1903, the marriage between Luigi Einaudi and Ida Pellegrini was celebrated

‘The bride, in a pearl-grey wool suit down to her feet, wore a pretty hat poised over her brown tresses, and on her delicate hands a pair of glacé kid gloves with white buttons. The groom was wearing a dark jacket, hard collar and, in hand, he kept iron-grey gloves: he had a pointed moustache turned upwards and a pair of pince-nez glasses. They got married on a cold, bright winter morning, 19 December 1903, and there were no photographers at the church exit to shoot what is now, 50 years later, one of the most photographed couples in Italy’ so begins Camilla Cederna's article in “L’Europeo”, December 20, 1953 (see the images below).

Alongside the professor - later senator, minister, governor of the Bank of Italy and, finally, President of the Republic - for 58 years, donna Ida was an active collaborator in research, editing texts and compiling indexes of his many books and articles.