Mario Catamo has suggested me that very probably the term "Italic" (in Italic hours) comes from the Latin word "Italicus" (that means "Italian"), that the word "Italianus" doesn't exist in Latin and that until the end of the XVIII century almost all the scientific texts (and also the gnomonic's ones) were written in Latin.
I think he is right ! Best wishes Gianni Ferrari
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