100 PTS!!! HALP MEH!!! Which of the following statements about the Roman Republic of 1848 is NOT correct? Select the best answer from the choices provided. A. The republic was led by Giuseppe Mazzini and defended by his admirer, the young Guiseppe Garibaldi. B. Pope Pius IX fled Rome because he opposed the republic and because his prime minister had been stabbed. C. The Republic was an experiment in radical socialism and free love. D. Like other liberal republics of 1848, conservative monarchs and their armies crushed it within a year.