Short answers, pulled from the story.
Paolo Veronese was born Gabriele Spezapreda to a stonecutter named Gabriele and his wife Caterina in 1528. He later changed his surname to Caliari after discovering his mother was the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman called Antonio Caliari.
Paolo Veronese moved to Venice in 1553 after obtaining state commissions for fresco ceilings in the Sala dei Consiglio dei Dieci. His subsequent works included a History of Esther painted on the ceiling of San Sebastiano between 1556 and 1557.
The Venetian Holy Inquisition summoned Paolo Veronese because his painting The Last Supper included German soldiers, dwarves, and animals deemed indecorous by Church doctrine. The tribunal ordered him to repaint the scene or change its title, which led him to rename it The Feast in the House of Levi.
His brother Benedetto lived from 1538 to 1598 while his sons Carlo and Gabriele worked alongside his nephew Luigi Benfatto who lived from 1559 to 1611. This group signed their work Haeredes Pauli meaning Heirs of Paolo and remained active for about a decade after his death.
An artist biography appeared in the second edition of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari in 1568. A fuller account followed with Le maraviglie dell'arte by Carlo Ridolfi published in 1648.