Resumen de Santa Maria delle Donne e le Clarisse ad Ascoli Piceno: un contributo per l'architettura francescana di destinazione femminile
The church of "Santa Maria delle Donne" in Ascoli Piceno, founded around 1232, is one of the oldest Franciscan convents in "Provincia Marchiae Anconitanae" and has a raised presbytery which, although containing a Gothic ciborium, has often been regarded as the nun's choir. The author excludes this theory, since the Poor Clares observed strict clausura, and, basing himself on architectural traces on the exterior of the church and on bricked-in-window and door, proposes that the choir was in an adjacent structure, since destroyed, and later behind the facade wall.
