His wife survived him and stated that he was virile until his one hundred and twentieth year.

Baron Baravicino de Capelis died at Meran in 1770 at the age of one hundred and four, being the oldest man in Tyrol.

His usual food was eggs, and he rarely tasted meat.

He habitually drank tea and a well-sweetened cordial of his own recipe.

He was married four times during his life, taking his fourth wife when he was eighty-four.
By her he had seven children and at his death she was pregnant with the eighth child.
Pliny mentions cases of men begetting sons when past the age of eighty and Plot speaks of John Best of the parish of Horton, who when one hundred and four married a woman of fifty-six and begat a son.