The Italian Figure Skating Championships (Italian: Campionati Italiani di Figura) are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Italy. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
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“Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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—Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)