Is it uppercase letters for the following?
Nei nostri cuori per sempre / Nei Nostri Cuori Per Sempre
Riposa in pace / Riposa In Pace
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Rules for using the upper case ("Maiuscola") are very rigid in Italian, and they do not allow the usage you cited. – linuxfan says Reinstate Monica Mar 25 '20 at 05:55
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2In the case of a personal cemetery scripture you can do whatever you prefer, it is just a question of personal style. – Mar 25 '20 at 06:59
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2Related question: https://italian.stackexchange.com/q/24/ (I think it's essentially the same). – Charo Mar 25 '20 at 07:38
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@Charo so you think that a dedication or an epitaph is the same as a title of a book or a newspaper article? Poor beloved dead... – linuxfan says Reinstate Monica Mar 25 '20 at 07:57
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2No, @linuxfansaysReinstateMonica: I think the rule is essentially the same. – Charo Mar 25 '20 at 08:04
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2As Gio says, a family grave is a personal thing, so the script should be left to personal taste, but capitalising all or most words is extraneous to any Italian usage. I'd go for either all caps or a sentence capitalisation (first word of the sentence/phrase and proper nouns). – DaG Mar 25 '20 at 14:34
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1Can someone write a proper answer? – Denis Nardin Mar 25 '20 at 17:19
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@gio it seems that the OP is interested in some italian rule about the topic, otherwise she was not asking here. – linuxfan says Reinstate Monica Mar 25 '20 at 18:19
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As explained in answers to this other question, title case is quite common in English, but it's extraneous to Italian. So, I would say the standard way to write the examples of scriptures you propose in your question is simply use sentence case, in the following way:
Nei nostri cuori per sempre
Riposa in pace
Charo
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Also take a look to a new answer to the question cited by the answer above: https://italian.stackexchange.com/a/11660/6017 – linuxfan says Reinstate Monica Mar 26 '20 at 06:50