AZZARA, Don Jose Nicolas de, the elder brother of the naturalist, was an eminent collector of Italian antiquities; and withdrew to Florence when the French took possession of Rome in 1798. He was afterwards Spanish ambassador at Paris, but was displaced by Godoy, and was preparing to return to his antiquarian studies in Italy in 1808, when he died. His best claim to notice is the active part he took, as a minister under Val, in the difficult and hazardous task of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain. He died at Paris in 1804.