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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
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dancer in
Constantinople, where she met Paolo Renier, who was there on a diplomatic mission between 1769 and 1773. Renier was by that time a widower after his first wife Giustina Donà (d. 1751), and they became lovers and married. According to another version, he had her placed to be educated in a
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Margherita Dalmet was widowed in 1789, and left the Ducal Palace. She remarried the
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Priorato della Gadi Bio. 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
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Catholic orphanage for poor girls, after which they fell in love and married. Due to the dislike of the
Venetian aristocracy of their marriage, it was not recorded in the Golden Book.
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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.
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