User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 01/17 -- ACW New Admin, key Ubisoft figure leaves AC/@comment-189.174.155.233-20120122211903/@comment-1888015-20120123010536

Ezio was not old. Ubisoft just decided to push it as fact, and made everyone think he was. At his age, he could have been a lot healthier than he was, but I suppose the time period and the things he got up to provided the grey area for that. To me, I think Ezio just grew stubborn and tried to go for the easy route, which, with the aftermath of Cappadocia, didn't really prove to be the best decision and could have been the thing that done him in, with the whole cave full of smoke etc.