Italics is the style of type in which this sentence is printed. A Venetian printer, Aldus Manutius (1450?-1515), first used italic type. He based it on a style of handwriting of his time. At present, italic type is commonly used for titles of books, newspapers, magazines, and motion pictures. Words are often set in italics when the word itself is being discussed, as in “Bee is a noun,” and for special emphasis, as in “But he was here!” Italics also indicate foreign words.
