"I waited anxiously the evening. It felt like the time had slowed down. I had seen it in the morning, already half dangling from the wall in an solitary alley near the ocean. It was a teasing, a request that I neither would nor could elude...."

So it reads the opening sentence to the introduction to the Volume One of Platea in Piedi. It describes perfectly the excitement, almost sexual, of the collector who, with an almost religious dedication, unfolds the large twofold, fourfold,or height-fold movie posters.

Maurizio with Italian composer Armando Trovaioli

Maurizio Baroni was born on Novembre 2, 1951 in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy where he lives and run a bookstore.

A movie lover since he was a little boy, he owns a collection of over 25.000 movie posters and about 2.000 original soundtracks. The Baroni Maurizio Collection is currently looking for a museum interested in documenting this specific field of art related to international movie production and marketing.

Maurizio held numerous shows and exhibitions in addition to consulting in the preparation of catalogs, collector magazines and TV shows.