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(See WP:Manual of Style/Titles § Italics for details.) Minor works (and any specifically titled subdivisions of italicized major works) are given in double quotation marks not italics, even when the title is not in English. (For details, see § When not to use italics.) These cases are well-established conventions recognized in most style guides.
Template:Italic title italicizes page titles. Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects: Titles with no parentheses are fully italicized: Foo → Foo; Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo
Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...
It's just a short-cut combination of italic and the math font. It's used a lot in math, since all usual variables|math variables are italic and serif both . For folks not conversant with mathematical typesetting rules, it probably seems like fluff, even though for us inside mathematics, the ubiquitous use of an italic serif font for most (but ...
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
It is technically possible to display formatting in titles using DISPLAYTITLE. A template, {{italic title}}, exists to display the title in italics. For guidance on when this technique should be used, see WP:ITALICTITLE.
This template italicizes the non-parenthetical portion (or, optionally, only the parenthetical portion) of a page title, and links to the given page. It is intended for formatting article titles on disambiguation pages. {{subst:fti|Glory (1989 film)}} → Glory
Any parenthetic expression should not be italicized unless it is part of the scientific name, as in the case of a subgenus, which is always italicized. Examples (these titles may or may not exist in Wikipedia, they are provided only to show how to format such cases): Lilium {{Italic title}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Lilium''}}