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The origin of a hypothetical ancestral "Italo-Celtic" people is to be found in today's eastern Hungary, settled around 3100 BC by the Yamnaya culture. This hypothesis is to some extent supported by the observation that Italic shares a large number of isoglosses and lexical terms with Celtic and Germanic , some of which are more likely to be ...
Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking people towards Italian peninsula Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.
The more modular structure of Arrighi's italic and its few ligatures made it less a copy of the cursive hand than Griffo's. Its slightly taller roman capitals, a gentler slant angle, taller ascenders and wider separation of lines gave the elegant effect of refined handwriting. Italic type designed by Ludovico Arrighi, c. 1527. This elegant ...
Italics markup is for non-emphasis purposes, such as for book titles and non-English language phrases, as detailed below. Emphasis may be used to draw attention to an important word or phrase within a sentence, when the point or thrust of the sentence may otherwise not be apparent to readers, or to stress a contrast:
Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [1] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [2] [3] [4] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography.
Consistently-formatted table for presenting information about books Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Name name Book title Default Pagename String optional Image image Image (prefer 1st edition where permitted). Use bare filename. File suggested Author author authors Author(s) of the book (should be link to their ...
The first book that was dated and printed under his name appeared in 1495. [1] The Aldine Press is famous in the history of typography, among other things, for the introduction of italics. [2] The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and intended for portability and ease of ...
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.