Quintino Cianfaglione came to Hartford from his native Abruzzo, Italy as a confident and headstrong 20-year-old searching for the American dream. Fifty years later, on a day he called “one of the most important” of his life, he said the dream had finally come true.

Cianfaglione was officially sworn in Tuesday as the honorary consul of Italy in Connecticut in a ceremony led by Armando Varricchio, the Italian ambassador to America. Cianfaglione’s appointment comes with a consulate on Trumbull Street, across from the XL Center.