On May 26–28, over the course of three afternoons, CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions (CHT) hosted Professor Robert Black for a special, so called “preview” lecture series entitled “Machiavelli in Florence: His Culture, His Career and His Early Writings”, which offered exciting glimpses of his forthcoming biography on the Florentine Renaissance politician and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527).