Short answers, pulled from the story.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola entered the world on the 24th of February 1463 within the Castle of Mirandola, a small autonomous county in Emilia near Modena. He was the youngest son of Gianfrancesco I Pico and Giulia Boiardo.
Pope Innocent VIII halted the proposed debate in February 1487 and established a commission to review the orthodoxy of his work. Although thirteen specific theses were condemned, eventually all nine hundred theses received condemnation from the Church.
Tests showed that Giovanni likely died of arsenic poisoning, possibly ordered by Lorenzo's successor Piero de' Medici. He died on the 17th of November 1494 at the age of thirty-one under mysterious circumstances alongside his friend Angelo Poliziano.
A tutor named Rabbi Johannan Alemanno introduced him to mystical Hebrew Kabbalah which fascinated him alongside late classical Hermetic writers such as Hermes Trismegistus. The most original aspect of his work concerned the Kabbalah establishing him as the founder of Christian Kabbalah tradition.
Raphael included a figure in his fresco The School of Athens painted between 1509 and 1511 that many believe represents Giovanni based on his role as proponent of harmony between Plato and Aristotle.