Chicago 17th note-style citations not appearing with proper italics for books

[spencerpedro]

I am using:
Zotero - 6.0.36
BetterBibTex - 6.7.240
Obsidian - 1.6.1
The Zotero integration plugin.

It is working like almost exactly like a charm, but there's one strange thing I can't seem to figure out: when I insert a note citation for a book, the citation is not italicizing properly. It IS doing so for the bibliography citations. I also see that the style displays correctly in Zotero using the preview plugin, so it seems the csl coming from Zotero is correct. I have attached some screenshots and would appreciate if someone could point out why these seem to not be italicizing?

Thanks very much for this phenomenal plugin.

Here is my example citation in Zotero (showing what an individual citation should look like and what the bibliography citation should look like):

Here is the Chicago 17th note style for citations I have in the plugin:

Here is the Chicago 17th note style for bibliography in the plugin:

Here is an example of the text where the bibliography correctly italicizes (in purple), whereas the citation does not:

It seems that an italicize command is not being properly imported?

Would appreciate any help.