Sentence:  It has been shown that there was a great disposition on the part of some German printers, especially Albert Durer, to adopt the rounded <WSD>Italian</WSD> type; others preferring the crisp angularity of the Gothic black-letter, even for general purposes; while for books of devotion it appears to have been deemed the more orthodox; the <WSD>Italian</WSD> style of type being deemed an innovation. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Using an italic style; italic.