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According to other versions he met her at a Catholic orphanage there. Secretary of State Giuseppe Gradenigo described the role of the new doges marriage in his election: " At noon on Friday his Serene Excellency Paolo Renier"s election was declared. The newly made prince must have spent much money.
He has purchased the balle for more than fifteen zecchini each, and of these there are about three hundred.
He was obliged to make a virtue of necessity, and to draw out a large number of those 90,000 zecchini that he is supposed to have made at Constantinople, in order to stop people"s mouths. And in the end the public was fully satisfied.
During three days" feasting in the Palace, money, bread, and wine were profusely distributed, and produced loud hurrahs and acclamations."
Nevertheless, she was acknowledged as such. In June 1786, she visited the waters of Eecoaro in Valdagno as dogaressa under the treatment of Doctor Girolamo Festari.
As dogaressa, she let out the pavement of the della Paglia bridge, for artists" shops, and obtained 1,000 zecchini for letting the Priorato della Georgia di Biology.
Margherita was said to damage the reputation and popularity of the doge. Margherita is known for a story about her dislike of the sound of church bells: her consort allegedly paid the abbey near the doge palace not to ring the bells, and whenever he was late with the payment, the convent rang the bells. Margherita was involved in a case of counterfeit as the accused.
On 3 October 1786, during his stay in Venice, Goethe witnessed the public trial against her in the Ducal Palace.
The case was about a deed of trust, and the lawsuit was against the Doge, but in reality against the dogaressa, who was in fact present on the bench of the accused, dressed in the robes of the dogaressa. Goethe describes her as "woman of a certain age, of a noble appearance.
She had a handsome face, but a severe expression, and a certain air of melancholy!".
