Ī-tăl'ie, a.

(110), a. [It. & Sp. Italico, Fr. Italique, from Lat. Italicus. See ITALIAN.] Relating to Italy;—applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right;—so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by their inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.