Editing Malingering (section)

===Renaissance===
In 1595, a treatise on feigned diseases was published in [[Milan]] by Giambattista Silvatico.

Various phases of malingering ({{lang|fr|les gueux contrefaits}}) are represented in the etchings and engravings of [[Jacques Callot]] (1592–1635).<ref>{{cite book |first=Fielding H. |last=Garrison |author-link=Fielding H. Garrison |title=History of Medicine |edition=3rd |publisher=W. B. Saunders |year=1921 |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/3edintroductiont00garruoft#page/201/mode/1up 201], [https://archive.org/stream/3edintroductiont00garruoft#page/312/mode/1up 312] |url=https://archive.org/details/3edintroductiont00garruoft |via=[[Internet Archive]] |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

In his [[Elizabethan]]-era social-climbing manual, [[George Puttenham]] recommends a would-be courtier to have "sickness in his sleeve, thereby to shake off other importunities of greater consequence".<ref name="Puttenham">{{cite book |author-last=Puttenham |author-first=George |author-link=George Puttenham |editor-last1=Wigham |editor-first1=Frank |editor-last2=Rebhorn |editor-first2=Wayne A. |year=1589 |title=The Art of English Posey: A Critical Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZ89DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA379 |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=[[Cornell University Press]] |publication-date=2007 |isbn=978-1501707414 |pages=379–380}}</ref>