Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a greedy beggar, a worthless person.

1598		R. Barret Theorike Practike Moderne Warres II I17: Many inconveniences and disorders which raw bisognios will commit [F&H].
1601		Jonson Cynthia’s Revels V i: Your critic, or your besogno, will think these things foppery.
1611		Fletcher Four Plays in Works of Beaumont & Fletcher (1912) X 300: I will rather [...] draw my sword of Fate on a Pesant, a Besognio, a Cocoloch, as thou art.
1622		R. Hawkins Voyage into South Sea 78: The souldiers ashore, who after the common custome of their profession (except when they be besonios) sought to pleasure him .
1821		W. Scott Kenilworth II 134: He that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening, is a base besognio, and a puckfist.