RICCARDO di CNAPWELL (and not di CLAPWELL). - English Dominican theologian, among the first to introduce Thomism at Oxford, between 1284 and 1286, not without vigorous opposition Roberto di Kilwardby (v.) Pecham (v.).
Author of a Quodlibet and of several Quaestiones disputatae, he upheld the Thomistic doctrine of the unity of the substantial form in man, concerning which a fierce and widely publicized debate was raging in those years; condemned as a heretic by Peckam, he left England for Bologna, where he died in 1288. It seems certain that the Correctorium «Quare», in reply to Guglielmo de la Mare’s Correctorium fratris Thomae, should be attributed to him.
BIBL.: P. Glorieux, Le Correct. corrup. «Quare», Parigi 1927; M. D. Chenu, La première diffus. du thomisme à Oxford..., in Arch. d'hist. doctr. et litt. du moyen âge, 3 (1928), pp. 185-200; F. Pelster, R. von Kn. O. P. Seine Quaestiones disp. u. s. Quodlibet. in Zeitschr. f. hath. Theol., 52 (1928), pp. 473-91; W. A. Hinnebusch, The early English Friars Preachers, Roma 1951 (v. ind. onomastico, and especially pp. 389-91). Bruno Nardi