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Discuss the author's depiction of the love of Carlo for Francesco
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... Discuss the author's depiction of the love of Carlo for Francesco Carlo finds his ideal of homosexual love described in Plato's 'Symposium', which is ironic to Carlo as he says, because he is invading Greece, Plato's homeland, at the time. This fact also reminds us of the way homosexuality can be seen differently in different times and places. In ancient Greece males married females but had male lovers too. 'The Symposium' by Plato states that "an army should be made up of lovers and their loves" in order to make them fight more effectively. Carlo reveals that "[he] would be ennobled by this love" this shows that ironically Carlo's love for Francesco is destined to be 'Platonic' as he is inexperienced and physically unrealised and that he believes in the fact that "love alone" will be enough to give him the encouragement to fight. But, Carlo also shows that his great
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