Complex sentence: No English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, but verbal echoes in "Othello" are closer to the Italian original rather than to Gabriel Chappuy's French translation of 1584.
Split into simpler sentences: No English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime. Verbal echoes in "Othello" are closer to the Italian original rather than to Gabriel Chappuy's French translation of 1584.