Complex sentence: The author and date of authorship are not reliably known, although later references have said that it was compiled in 1393 by one Fan Li-pen, the work "is the first book ever translated from Chinese into a Western language, i.e. Spanish".
Split into simpler sentences: The author and date of authorship are not reliably known, although later references have said that it was compiled in 1393 by one Fan Li-pen. The work "is the first book ever translated from Chinese into a Western language, i.e. Spanish".