Richardus Braithwaite

Richardus Braithwaite (vulgo Richard Brathwaite vel Brathwait, Braithwaite, Brathwayte) fuit auctor Anglicus satirarum. Eius pseudonyma erant "Corymbaeus", "Parthenius Osiander", "Musophilus", "Dinonysius Baccho", "Blasius Multibibus" et "Castalio Pomerano".

De vita

In templo de Catterick est Richardi Braithwaite atque uxoris sepulcrum cuius inscriptio est haec:

„Iuxta sitae sunt / Richardi Braithwaite / De Burneshead, in comitat / e Westmorelandae armigeri, et / Mariae, eius coniugis, Reliquiae. / Ille quarto die Maii, anno, 1673, / Donatus est; haec undecimo Aprilis 1681. / Supremum diem obiit. Horum filius / Unicus, Strafford Braithwaite, Eques / Auratus, adversus Mauros Christiani / Nominis hostes infestissimos, fortiter / Dimicans, occubuit. Cuius Cineres / Tingi in Mauritania Tingitana / Humantur./ Requiescant in Pace.“

Opera

The Golden Fleece, 1611 (Poemata)
The Poet's Willow, 1614
Disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica ius potandi, cum omnibus solemnitatibus &controversiis occurentibus secundum jus civile discussis breviter adumbrans (...) praes. Dionysio Baccho (...) publ. Blasius Multibibus, Oenozythopoli (Londinium), 1616
The English Gentleman, 1630
The English Gentlewoman, 1631
"Corymbaeus", Barnabae itinerarium: Barnabee's Journal (aliter Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to Northern England), 1636, 1638
A Spiritual Spicery, 1638
A Strappado for the Devil (satira)
Art Asleepe, Husband?

Libri

Leslie Stephen (ed.): Dictionary of National Biography, Vol IV, Londinium 1886, P. 233-234
Michael Stolleis: Nachwort zu: Richard Brathwaite: Jus potandi oder Zechrecht, Neuwied 1997, S. 104 ISBN 3-472-02878-5
John W. Cousin: A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, Londinium 1910
Matthew Wilson Black: Richard Brathwait, An Account of his Life and Works, Philadelphia, 1928