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==Circus Owner, Director, and Performer==

''By Raffaele De Ritis''


When he passed away on October 1, 2008, Cesare Togni was the oldest member of the large [[The Togni Family|Togni family]], one of Italy's foremost circus dynasties. He was a beloved circus director, one who truly made his mark on the history of the Italian and European circus. 

Born in 1924,  he was the son of [[Ugo Togni]] (1897-1981), and a former acrobat, tumbler, animal trainer. As an artist, he is best remembered as the principal flyer in his family's flying trapeze act: in 1956 he was the first flyer to accomplish a triple return pirouette from the catcher to the trapeze.

In the mid-1950s, he founded his own circus with his brother [[Oscar Togni|Oscar]]; originally called Circo Massimo, and the largest three-ring circus ever seen in Europe, it eventually became the celebrated, albeit more modest in size, [[The Togni Family|Circo Cesare Togni], for decades the Italian destination for some of the world's finest circus acts, among which trapeze legends [[Tony Steele]], [[Enzo Cardona]], [[the Palacios]] and the [[Flying Jimenez|Jimenez]]. 

It is at Circo Cesare Togni that [[David Larrible]] was given the opportunity to do his first steps as clown. The elegant and classy Circo Cesare Togni toured extensively in  Europe. In 1983, Cesare returned to the three-ring format, with a circus that was transported entirely in containers. he later reverted to the classic one-ring format. 

Cesare trained his sons (Elvio, Alex, Italo, Viviana) in all classic equestrian and acrobatic disciplines, as well as in elephant training. His circus ceased its operations in the early 1990s, athough its name was sometimes revived in associations between Cesare and other italian families. Cesare spent his last years at [[The Togni Family|Circo Americano]], led by his cousin [[Enis Togni|Enis]], supervising his sons' pyramids on horseback and elephant acts.

==See Also==

*History: [[The Togni Family]]

[[Category:Artists and Acts|Togni, Cesare]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Togni, Cesare]][[Category:Flying Acts]]

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