Meanings of italic type in English

You cannot give permanence to a book by printing it in italic type.

Thus edition (August 2004) corrects a few errors in the convention for italic type.

Imagine it in a soft italic type.

In the Textual Appendix, all original text is shown in "roman" type, except where it occurs in italic type in the sources.

Aldus, the famous Venetian printer (1447-1515), who issued the Aldine editions of the classics and invented italic type

The texts listed below in italic type were published in full or nearly so-thatis, with no more than a paragraph or occasional sentence omitted.

{1} Regions of italic type are defined by underscores