This is your one-stop-shop for Shakespeare-ology.

This site anthologizes a lot of literature. And this section provides a healthy dose of important peeps from the Renaissance that we here at Shmoop didn't have time to tell you about, like Roger Ascham and Thomas Nashe. Sweet.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a mob boss? The Medici family was the most powerful ruling force in Florence during the Renaissance. And that's nothing to sneeze at.

Learn more about one of our fave Renaissance scientists, and just why contradicting the most powerful organization in all of Europe doesn't go over too well. At least, when you're not a king, that is.