Precisely, i need a phrase to stay italicized in part of a title -- a foreign phrase.

no, does not, but i don't know how to do the rich text setting -- where is that?

oops -- it chnaged it to rich text here but has the codes in there for my footnote.

But it sounds like they're already doing that and it's not working?

If I'm understanding that correctly, could you try with a simpler title (particularly one without apostrophes)? e.g. just test if this works with "From Isqat to the Garbage Crisis"

Which Zotero version, which word processor are you using?