The present study sets out to analyze the intertextual relation of Giovanni Boccaccio and Miguel Cervantes, focusing on the presence of the Decameron in the Exemplary Novels. After a first presentation, a description of the structure of the Decameron is attempted in order to detect potential influences on Cervantes regarding the art of relating, narrative procedures, discursive strategies and stylistic traits. Subsequently the study seeks to demonstrate how the birth of the Exemplary Novels depends on a personal reflection by Cervantes regarding the morphology of the prose of extensive imagination, womb of which the genre evolves in the course of the 16th century. Finally the direct correspondences between both raccolte di novella are cited...