Amatrice, where most of the 295 victims lived, filed an aggravated defamation complaint against the satirical French weekly magazine.
One of the images, labelled as lasagne, showed a stack of rubble with bloody feet emerging from it.
Italian magistrates will decide whether the case can proceed.
The town of Amatrice, which was one of the hardest hit by 24 August's 6.2 magnitude earthquake, is famous as the home of the dish called spaghetti all'amatriciana.
