Who lived earlier Ambroise Thomas or Jacopo Peri?
Ambroise Thomas Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer, best known for his operas "Mignon" (1866) and "Hamlet" (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.
Thomas III of Piedmont Count Thomas III (c. 1246 – 16 May 1282), called "Thomas of Savoy" or "de Savoie", was the lord of Piedmont and a claimant to the county of Savoy from 1268.