 He added to the fame of Šibenik and of his compatriot Antun Vrančić, called Antonius Verantius.The art collector George Cumberland wrote in 1827 that 

Rota's portrait of the Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564), "pictured", may have been engraved from Deschler's medallion of 1561.Other portraits he engraved include the Emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II and King Henry IV of France.