The Shelley Byron Bromance

Shelley wasn't exactly Byron's best friend, but they sort of represented two sides of romanticism. So he hangs around Italy for a while and then heads off to Greece. He'd always been interested in Greece from the days when he studied ancient Greece. They were in a war fighting for independence against the Turks at the time. And he decided to go and like kind of do something with his life. And he joined up to fight for Greek independence. But actually before he even got on the field, he contracted a fever. The doctors at the time decided to leach him where they put leeches to drain the blood because that's sort of this belief that the virus was in