Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120) Simon Bourgouyn, translator (active c. 1503-32)
Le iie livre de Plutarque de la vie Scipion et Pompee translate de latin en francois c. 1510
RCIN 1047552
This is one of the earliest known translations of any of Plutarch’s Lives into French. Pompey visited Mytilene on his way home to Rome after a lengthy war in the Black Sea. He was so impressed by its theatre that he had an artist copy its design, so that he could build a larger version back in Rome.
