The Dutchman, in spite of battling with his tires in the last piece of the race, took his fifth triumph in seven races this year to fix his extremely tight grip on a fourth world title.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc serenely beat McLaren's Oscar Piastri for the last platform spot to move into second in the title, in front of Verstappen's colleague Sergio Perez.
Norris went into the last three laps simply 1.3 seconds behind Verstappen, yet he was not exactly close to the point of having the DRS surpassing guide on the last lap, and the title holder held tight.
The Briton's endeavors spiced up the last laps of what had been a generally balmy race, where the main position change in the best five was Piastri moving past the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz with a prior refueling break, in the wake of testing the Spaniard intently all through the primary spell.
A courageous exertion - however sufficiently not
Max Verstappen leads at Imola from Lando Norris
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Verstappen won by under a second from Norris, who has completed second-first-second in the beyond three grands prix
McLaren, for whom Norris won the past occasion in Miami, had entered the race with trusts that they could challenge Verstappen, assuming the speed the two vehicles had displayed in Friday practice was rehashed.
Be that as it may, in the early laps maybe Verstappen would overwhelm.
He held the lead toward the beginning while Norris battled off an assault from Leclerc into the primary chicane, and it before long turned out to be evident that the upgrades Red Bull had made to the vehicle to empower Verstappen to take shaft position had likewise been compelling in race trim.
Verstappen backed tenderly away from Norris at around 0.2secs or so a lap until he was eight seconds in front when he made his refueling break on lap 23 of 63.
Verstappen looked agreeable in the principal stretch, yet there meant that his day was not as simple in that frame of mind as it seemed, by all accounts, to be from outside when he was given the high contrast banner for surpassing track restricts too often not long after his refueling break.
He gave off an impression of being charging to triumph. However, as the race entered its last third, the example changed.
At first, Norris was feeling the squeeze himself, from Leclerc, who was in the span of a moment of the McLaren and in reach to utilize the DRS overwhelming guide with 20 laps to go.
McLaren came on the radio to caution Norris that Leclerc was accelerating and "attempting". "Me, as well," Norris answered. "I'm attempting, however he's simply a great deal speedier."
However at that point Norris started to back away from the Ferrari and close Verstappen down.
At first eight seconds back, Norris had the hole down to five seconds with 10 laps to go, while Verstappen was griping that "my tires don't work".
Norris shut in reliably however Verstappen had barely sufficient speed to avoid him as much as possible.
"The entire race I needed to stretch to the edge," Verstappen said. "On the medium tire we were areas of strength for very, on the hard tire we battled and it's undeniably challenging when you need to push absolutely and the tires are not working any longer."
Norris said: "It harms me to say it, however a couple of additional laps and I figure I would have had him. Extreme. Just missed out an excessive amount to Max to start with. He was more grounded in the principal stretch.
"We are at a point now where we can say we are in the situation with Ferrari and Red Bull. We need to become accustomed to it. We are battling for first and second at this point.
"It is as yet a shock to say we are disheartened not to win, but rather it is what we ought to begin to anticipate."
Behind the main three
In the second piece of the race, Piastri at first tested Leclerc in the laps after the refueling breaks, however the Ferrari started to pull away and inch towards Norris.
When Piastri had passed him, Sainz had a forlorn rush to fifth spot, not ready to stay up with the main four yet serenely in front of the Mercedes sets of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.
It was one more mysterious end of the week for the group that ruled F1 somewhat recently, and Hamilton didn't help his possibilities by running into the rock at Acque Minerali mid-race.
Regardless of that misfortune, Hamilton was more than equipped for keeping up with his benefit in the last laps over Perez, who was on a reversed tire procedure from his humble eleventh put on the network.
Perez began the hard tires and ran on a long first spell, in which he, as well, ran into the rock, this time at Rivazza, and afterward changed to the medium, when that large number of in front began the mediums.
Notwithstanding his tire advantage into the subsequent stretch and the way that he was driving a Red Bull, Perez was scarcely any speedier than the Mercedes before him.
Russell had burned through a large portion of the race before Hamilton, however their positions were reversed when Russell made a stop for new tires with 10 laps to go.
RB's Yuki Tsunoda, so amazing in qualifying seventh, and Aston Martin's Spear Walk took the last focuses positions in 10th and tenth.
Drivers' title standings
Constructors' title standings
Coming straightaway: Monaco
It's the marvelousness of Monte Carlo one weekend from now for cycle eight of the Recipe 1 season - the drivers confronting another circuit where it is very challenging to surpass.
Exploring the tight and twisty roads was broadly compared by three-time title holder Nelson Piquet to "riding a bike around your lounge room".
Last year's race was breathed life into by a downpour shower as Verstappen won from Fernando Alonso.
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