[1] She has been called the world's first female lawyer, and claimed as an inspiration for the character of Portia in Shakespeare's play Merchant of Venice.
On 8 April 1500 she pronounced an arbitration sentence before the Venetian governor of Trani, Ludovico Contarini.
In her last wishes, dictated to a notary on 10 June 1501, she asked to be buried in Trani Cathedral next to the tomb of her daughter Cornelia.
[2] Rocca's life was celebrated in Tractatus de iure patronatus (1533), by the Trani jurist Cesare Lambertini.
[2] The Rocca tower in Luxembourg was completed in 2019 as an addition to the headquarters of the Court of Justice of the European Union.