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Coriolanus where not only are the plots taken straight
from Plutarch; but many of the speeches are merely
North's tranlation versified. The most striking examples
of this are Euobarus' description of Cleopatra's barge,
and the great scene between mother + son at the end
of Coriolanus.
"Jenson's roman types have been the accepted models
for roman letters ever since he made them, +, tepeatedly
copied in our own day, have never been equalled" Updike.

Giovanni Antonio Campano (1429-74) edited the 1st
complete Latin translation of the PParallel Lives which
was printed around 1470 at the press of Ulrich Han
(Rome) N. Jenson issued a 3rd printing of Campano's
edition of the complete Parallel Lives in 1478.
THe editio princeps of the original Greek followed
the Latin printings in 1517 at the Gianta press
in Florence.