What was Italian poetry like in the years of historical, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual change between the 1860s and the Unification of Italy and the 1960s? In A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation Roberta Payne provides a bilingual collection of ninety-two poems by thirty-five Italian poets, including works of classicism and passionate decadentism, examples of crepuscularism, and poetry by Ungaretti, Montale, and Quasimodo.