History Machiavelli and Shakespeare as Renaissance humanists

Hello the writer should have the following textbooks. If he or she doesn’t have please do not write anything the ONLY reference allowed is these textbooks
( Western Civilization, Perry, et al, 10th edition
The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume I, Lawall, et al 8th edition)

Topic ( Discuss Machiavelli and Shakespeare as Renaissance humanists. What makes The Prince and Shakespeare’s sonnets uniquely Renaissance works )
since the response is so short, let your first sentence be the topic sentence, and then your discussion can proceed from there. For grading, I’m looking for a well-written paragraph free from distracting grammatical and punctuation errors.