Dante Giacosa
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Dante Giacosa was an Italian automobile designer and engineer responsible for a range of Italian automobile designs — and for refining the front-wheel drive layout to an industry-standard configuratio
Giacosa in 1966
Fiat 600
Fiat 500
Deus ex machina
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Deus ex machina is a plot device, a type of denouement in which a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Its function is gen
Dante Giacosa
…for a range of Italian automobile designs — and for refining the front-wheel drive layout to an industry-standard configuration. He has been called the deus ex machina of Fiat. Born in Rome, where his father was undertaking military service, Giacosa's family roots were in Neive on the southern edge of Piedmont. He…
Deus ex machina in Euripides's Medea, performed in 2009 in Syracuse, Italy; the sun god sends a golden chariot to rescue Medea.
Characters ascend into heaven to become gods at the end of the 1650 play Andromède.