Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/23C

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the frontier. The prince furnishes all those who join the insurgents
<i>without authorisation, but he sends one-fifth of his effective forces into
the Herzegovina. Not to overtire these poor people, His Highness
takes care to change them at the end of each expedition, or when
their provisions are exhausted. Reforms alone, it is stated, will
never put an end to the insurrection, and force is of no avail so
long as the insurgents and their Montenegrin friends have only to
cross the frontier to be in safety.</i>"[1]
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[Footnote 1: <i>Turkey</i>, 3, 1876, No. 1.]

Italics across multiple sentences

All periods go inside the italics tags. Even though part of the first sentence is not in italics, leave the first period inside the italics markup because the entire passage in italics is being emphasized.