In a diary entry from 1474, Maria Auditore, one of the greatest Florentine chroniclers and Ezio's mother, describes her son as "competitive, stubborn and loud mouthed, but so passionate that it is impossible to fault him for anything". Complaints to the city guard by several noble patricians seem to suggest he was also something of a womanizer. Tutored by the great banker Giovanni Tornabuoni, Ezio's school records cease around age 17, at which point, his name is connected with some terrible crime.