Italian studies on the occupation of Fiume under D’Annunzio have focussed very little on the non-Italian population of the city. The article wishes to present a group of Fiume inhabitants of Croatian national sentiment and Yugoslav political leanings. This group, belonging to the middle class and well-educated, is understood here as an “emotional community” and analysed with methods of history of emotions, history of ideas and lit-erary anthropology of feelings. We will examine a body of texts produced by them and study the prevailing emotions linked to national sentiment: boredom, enthusiasm, love, indignation, resentment and disillusionment.
