I just italicized that quote without apparent problem, by just adding the requisite tags.
Except that your result was now what I was trying to avoid, and which I did not instruct the system to provide...it was Bolded.
I only wanted italicization. The problem is that, although I selected ONLY italics, the result was italics AND bolding.
I have now put it back to plain text as it is the only way to get rid of the Bolding. REverting to plain text was done by deleting the instructions between these brackets [ ]. I note that the brackets only had [i][/i], without any [b][/b], and yet the text was bold.