Was Galileo Galilei tortured or imprisoned in a dungeon?

Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that Galileo Galilei was ever tortured or held in a dungeon during his Inquisition trial in 1633.1

During the proceedings, Galileo was treated with relative leniency. He stayed primarily at the house of the Tuscan ambassador to the Vatican and spent only a short period in a comfortable apartment within the Inquisition building. Following his formal abjuration and condemnation for being "vehemently suspect of heresy," he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but he served this time under house arrest. He spent six months at the palace of the archbishop of Siena and subsequently lived out the remainder of his life at his villa near Arcetri, in the hills above Florence.12