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I-tal′ic.

Inclined type of a peculiar form, as, —

Italic type is said to have been copied from the handwriting of Petrarch, by the famous printer Aldus Manutius. He obtained a patent for the use of this character in type from Pope Leo X., surnamed The Great.

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