The painter Giovanni Filocamo, known as Vanni, was born in 1937 in Reggio Calabria. He attends the art school directed by Alfonso Frangipane and devotes himself to teaching "ornate" and "drawn figure". Then he moves to the Aeolian Islands, finally arrives in Frosinone, where he taught at the Bragaglia artistic high school. Multifaceted artist lived in the winter months in his home-studio in Frosinone, while in the summer he worked in Pentedattilo in Calabria, where he died in 2016. In 1992 he completed a manuscript in which collected drawings and notes on the feudal coats of arms of Pentedattilo and Melito, described the massacre of Pentedattilo, the coat of arms of the Montebello Abenavoli. Autobiographical writings are reported in the work.The copy was dedicated by the painter to Italo Biddittu who decided to make it public as a fair homage to the artist.
Under German law, copyrights are passed on to heirs after death. I think this is also the case in other countries. If you yourself are the heir, you own all the rights to publish the book. If not, you need the consent of the heir(s).
I was going to say exactly the same as Dr. Dick said. The issue is not whether it is permissible to publish material posthumously by a friend. Since you think that the material is worth publishing, which is probably the case, there should be no hesitation about publishing it but not before obtaining the permission of his heirs. If you publish it without, you might entangle yourself into endless, unnecessary lawsuits by his family.
Thank you for your kind replies. To clarify, I would like to publish on Research Gate the small book by Filocamo, which was published in 1992 in a few copies, not easily available. There would be no problems with any heirs. The problem is that the pdf is accepted only as "your book" and not only with the author Giovanni Filocamo. Perhaps the editorial staff of RG can indicate the solution ...
I do not see a problem to publish the book in your account. Indicate Giovanni Filocamo as first author and yourself as second and add a note about your intentions in the abstract field. RG does not check whether the list of authors is correct. I practice this regularly to add reviews of my books to RG, especially for review authors who are not RG members. Or see this note (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341616353) on the 100th birthday of one of my coauthors, where I am the sole author but added him as "coauthor" to make the note visible also in his profile. - The alternative, formal solution would be to create a posthumous profile for Giovanni Filocamo and to get access to it. For this you have to get the formal permission by the heirs and to demonstrate this permission to RG (see https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Deceased+researchers). This would be very complicated and I am not sure if that really works.
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