Ricordi Del Contrabbando is a series of binary or ternary form sonatas for solo guitar depicting various Mediterranean ports in the great 20th century era (c. 1960-1980) of smuggling cigarettes and whiskey between Italy and the Black Sea. This sonata, written in chromatic minor and Lydian chromatic modes, refers to the Island of Proti, a small ancient island one mile off the Messinian coastline in Peloponnese.