sentences:  The Panchatantra fables first appeared in English as "The Morall Philosophie of Doni" in 1570, translated from the Italian by Sir Thomas North, who also translated "Plutarch's Lives".Wood’s two "Kalila and Dimna" volumes are the first modern English, multiple-sourced, remix of these ancient fables since North's version.Wood’s "Kalila and Dimna – Fables of Friendship and Betrayal (Vol 1)" is reconstituted from the North text and also seven other works translated from Sanskrit, Arabic, Syriac and Persian.