Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/27A

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being with which it is identical, is not a <i>unum per se</i> but only a
<i>unum per accidens</i> (<i>cf.</i> <i>b</i>, <i>infra</i>).

Italicized for different reasons

There are four separate elements on that bottom line: mark them separately. "cf." is an abbreviation, so its period must be marked with it; the comma after "b" is a separator and goes outside any markups; the parentheses are not part of any of those elements, and should not be within any of the italics markups.