Proceedings of the Workshop on Monte Carlos, Physics and Simulations at the LHC PART I

These proceedings collect the presentations given at the first three meetings of the INFN Workshop on Monte Carlos, Physics and Simulations at the LHC, held at the Frascati National Laboratories in 2006. The first part of these proceedings contains pedagogical introductions to several basic topics of both theoretical and experimental high pT LHC physics. The second part collects more specialised presentations.