Do Italians write in italics?

Question

Do Italians write in italics?

Answer 1

no, italians don't write at all

Answer 2

Actually, the "Italic" typeface was invented in Italy, by Italians (hence the name).  Back when paper was very expensive, a number of Italian printers managed to squeeze more letters onto each page by tilting them slightly and adding details that made them look more like handwritten script than the spacious roman or thick German black letter faces.

But it turns out that even with the extra detailing, the italic letters were still harder to read than a roman typeface, so once cheap paper began taking Europe by storm, the use of italic for body text quickly died out.  It remains in use today to help set certain words or phrases to stand out on a line of text, much the same way bold letters are used to make words stand out on an entire page.

Incidentally, the Germans don't usually use italics at all.  They continued to use the Gothic-ish black letter until the 20th century, and since there was no italic form of this style of type they set up words for emphasis by putting spaces in between each of the letters, l i k e t h i s.  To this day, in German you most often see words spaced apart where in other languages you'd expect to see italics.

Answer 3

Yes, they do; they call it "cursivo".

Answer 4

Lol, yeah, we do especially at school... Btw among young people the CORISIVO (and not cUrsivo form) is a mix between italics and the capital I'm using to write right now... Don't know what its name is in English

Answer 5

no they do not , they write in latin alphabets just like we do ! italics is just a font !!

Answer 6

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