Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation.

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.