SIR THOMAS (1535?-1601?).-Translator, 2nd _s._ of the 1st Lord N., may have studied at Camb. He entered Lincoln's Inn 1557, but gave more attention to literature than to law. He is best known by his translation of _Plutarch_, from the French of Amyot, in fine, forcible, idiomatic English, which was the repertory from which Shakespeare drew his knowledge of ancient history: in _Antony and Cleopatra_ and _Coriolanus_ North's language is often closely followed. Another translation was from an Italian version of an Arabic book of fables, and bore the title of _The Morale Philosophie of Doni_.
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Литературная энциклопедия. 2012