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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aquitaine, post: 2210807, member: 602&quot;]<font size="4"><span style="color: #0080ff"><span style="color: #000000">It&#039;s fascinating the stories/facts you keep digging up, [USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER]!!!&nbsp; And amazing the inferences the paintings of old seem to include!!!&nbsp; Glad I read it!!!</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0080ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0080ff"><i>&quot;It may have been included for a number of reasons, because in addition to being a pun on Cecilia’s surname, the ermine was also a well-known symbol of purity and moderation at the time and, according to popular belief, an animal that protected pregnant women (in 1489/90, Cecilia was pregnant by her lover, Ludovico Sforza).&quot;</i></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0080ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0080ff"><span style="color: #000000">Plus I never knew what looks like a little lamb was called an &#039;ermine&#039;!!</span></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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