Hello Xenos,

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 10:50, Xenos Athenaios <adeimantos@free.fr> wrote:
Hi ConTeXt fellows !

I am coming back with I hope a lighter MWE concerning the issue I am
confronting to : it seems impossible to get italics within both body
text, footnotes and bibliographical titles.

It is a font setup problem. Remove your font definitions and fallbacks and change \setupbodyfont[mainface] to \setupbodyfont[dejavu] for the start (it will cover greek and cyryllic, too).

Can you describe what you need? Are the requirements given (main font, scripts, serif & sans, fallbacks fonts to other scripts)?

For example IBM Plex will cover most of what you need (except cjk for now) and there is a font definition file type-imp-plex.mkiv in the distribution (not all fallbacks defined, yet). 

Regards,
Jano