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Italic script

This article is about the calligraphic and handwriting style. For other uses, see Old Italic scripts and Italic type.
Example page of the "Italique Hande" from a copy of A booke containing diuers sortes of hands... first published in 1570.

Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy. It is one of the most popular styles used in contemporary Western calligraphy.


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Escriptura cancelleresca Catalan Humanistische Kursive German Ítalíuskrift IS

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