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Galileo, oil painting by Justus Sustermans, c. 1637, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Following his trial by the Inquisition in 1633, Galileo Galilei was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served under house arrest rather than in a dungeon.12
Initially, he spent six months at the palace of Ascanio Piccolomini, the archbishop of Siena. Following this period, he moved into a villa near Arcetri, located in the hills above Florence, where he remained for the rest of his life.1