ITALIC, i.e., Italian, in Roman archaeology, history and law, a term used of that which relates to the non-Roman parts of Italy (see ITALY: Ancient Languages and Peoples). In architecture the Italic order means the Composite order (see ORDER). The term was applied to the Pythagorean school of philosophy in Magna Graecia, and to an early, pre-Vulgate, Latin version of the Bible, known also as Pala. Its technical use is of a form of type, in which
the letters slope to the right, now used, in printing, chiefly to em phasize, to indicate a foreign language, or to mark titles of books, etc. It was introduced by the Aldine Press (see MANUTIUS and TYPOGRAPHY).