It can mean relative to Lampedusa an Italian island in the Mediterranean (in the Pelagias archipelago). It's from Lampedusa. It can also be relative to Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Duke of Montichiaro, an Italian writer of the twentieth century. He emphasized his writings to the cynicism of the adherents to the Old Regime, after the Italian unifying and revolutionary triumph. Also this adjective is synomino of gatopardism or gatopardist.
