Editing Vaticinium ex eventu (section)

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*The Ancient world saw the technique of ''vaticinium ex eventu'' used by a wide variety of figures, from [[Pindar]] and [[Herodotus]] to [[Horace]] and [[Virgil]].<ref>J. J. O'Hara, ''Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid'' (2014) pp. 128-9</ref>
*The ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' by [[Dante Alighieri]] includes a number of such prophecies of Dante's own exile from Florence.
*In ''[[Jerusalem Delivered]]'', [[Torquato Tasso]] uses the ''vaticinium ex eventu'' trope in presaging the discovery of America by [[Christopher Columbus]]: "Un uom de la Liguria avrà ardimento / a l'incognito corso esporsi in prima"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tasso|first1=Torquato|title=Gerusalemme Liberata|date=1971|publisher=Einaudi|location=Turin|page=459}}</ref>
*References in the late correspondence of [[Virginia Woolf]] to "how I love this savage medieval water [...] and myself so eliminated"<ref>Quoted in H. Lee, ''Virginia Woolf'' (1996) p. 752</ref> are sometimes taken as presaging her suicide by drowning a few months later: the danger of ''vaticinium ex eventu'' has however also been observed.<ref>Olivia Laing, ''To the River'' (2011) pp. 195-8</ref>