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POV problems
editThis article is actually unreferenced. The two notes in the Infobox do not address the life of Ansano directly. I presume that the material is derived from one of the external links.
The source material for the article is completely unbalanced. It depends on an uncritical and one-sided repetition of devotional and hagiographical web sites. No effort is made to present other points of view, or even to show skepticism over miraculous events, such as a person surviving being boiled (not just quick-dipped) in oil. It is a commonplace to attribute martyrdoms to the Diocletianic persecution of 303, but most of them appear to be fictional.
For some balance, and details, see:
- Robert Langton Douglas (1902). A History of Siena. J. Murray. p. 12.
- Barcellona, Francesco Scorza (1991), "Un martire locale: Ansano," Bollettino senese di storia patria 97 (Siena: Tip. e Lit. Sordo-Muti di L. Lazzeri 1991), pp. 1-25.
- Lanzoni, Francesco (1927). Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604). Faenza: F. Lega, pp. pp. 564-565. (in Italian)
- Bettini, Maurizio (2010). Miti di città: Bari, Bologna, Firenze, Genova, Mantova, Milano, Napoli, Padova, Palermo, Roma, Siena, Siracusa, Torino e Asti, Treviso, Venezia, Verona (in Italian). Siena: Monte dei Paschi di Siena. p. 239.
- Bisogni, F. (1991), "L'iconografia di Ansano," in: F. E. Consolino (ed.), I santi patroni senesi (Siena 1991), pp. 95-115.
- Kemp-Welch, Alice (1911), "The Emblem of St. Ansano," The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs Vol. 18, No. 96 (March 1911), pp. 337-339.