1. Its organization as unified and curated, as noted under content description (subheading: coherence) above. 2. Its central argument, that Colonna deserves a more elevated place within studies of Italian Renaissance literature, thought, and culture than she has hitherto enjoyed. 3. Its demonstration that the ongoing rediscovery of the forgotten or marginalized later sixteenth-century tradition of Italian literature is progressively making this clear, by revealing the unexpected extent of her influence.