[fantasyfan]

I've been in the mood for sonnets lately, thus I'll nominate another famous sequence:

Dante: La Vita Nuova.

Here is a second series of love poems. There are fewer than in Shakespeare's cycle but in them Dante gives a commentary on the meaning of his love for Beatrice--who became one of the great images in The Divine Comedy. Hence, the advantage of this cycle is that we have the author's own explanation of the significance of the poetry giving it a strong auto-biographical dimension.

Again, a good translation is available on PG and one can easily get modern editions for a moderate price.