[PatrickHenry]

The clincher, for me, that the "authorized" version of the Galileo affair is wrong are these words from Galileo's inquisitor:

That was written by Bellarmine in 1615. He died in 1621, a dozen years before the famous trial. Interesting letter, but not involved in the trial.

[curiosity]

Bellarmine presided over the first trial in 1615, in which Galileo was admonished not to refer to the Copernican theory as fact, and he agreed. He was condemned in 1633 for failing to live up to it. It is true this second trial happened after Bellarmine's death, but it was based on the findings of the 1615 trial.